Job 40:8

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Summary

Job 40:8

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Disannul

Wilt thou condemn

Job 35:2

General references

Job 11:5

Ezekiel 33:17

John 12:10

Bible References

Disannul

For the Lord of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

“Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol (the place of the dead) will not stand;
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you will become its trampling ground.

Brothers and sisters, I speak in terms of human relations: even though a last will and testament is just a human covenant, yet when it has been signed and made legally binding, no one sets it aside or adds to it [modifying it in some way].

For, on the one hand, a former commandment is cancelled because of its weakness and uselessness [because of its inability to justify the sinner before God]

Wilt thou condemn

‘Does it indeed seem right to You to oppress,
To despise and reject the work of Your hands,
And to look with favor on the schemes of the wicked?

“As God lives, who has taken away my right and denied me justice,
And the Almighty, who has caused bitterness and grief for my soul,

But Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became indignant. His indignation was kindled and burned and he became upset with Job because he justified himself rather than God [and even expressed doubts about God’s character].

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous [and innocent],
But God has taken away my right;

“Do you think this is according to [your] justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

General references

“But oh, that God would speak,
And open His lips [to speak] against you,

“Yet your people [who are in exile in Babylon] say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right;’ but as for them, it is their own way that is not right.

So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,