Job 8:3

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Summary

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

God

Almighty

Revelation 16:7

Bible References

God

Can any mortal be righteous to God? Can any human being be pure to his maker?

Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?

Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

Yes I cry for Help! I am being attacked! But I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.

Job has said: 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right.

Would you undo my justice? Would you condemn me so that you can be righteous?

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

Do your work in honor of him and know that he will not allow you to be unfair to anyone or to take bribes.

But you say: Jehovah's way is unfair. Listen, nation of Israel, is my way fair? Is it your ways that are unfair?

But your people say: 'Jehovah's way is not right.' Yet, their ways are not right.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before you.

Therefore Jehovah watched over the evil and brought it upon us. Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works. We have not obeyed his voice.

Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged.

Almighty

Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain if we pray to him?

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Will the person who finds fault with the Almighty correct him? Will the person who argues with God answer him?

The strength of the King loves justice. You have established equity. You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

I heard another say: Even so, Jehovah God the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments. (Deuteronomy 32:4) (Psalm 145:17) (Exodus 6:3)