For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

I will

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

Condemned

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.