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Job 34:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

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‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.


As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, and the Almighty who has made me bitter,


So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.


I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.


although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.


You have said, ‘My teaching  is sound, and I am pure in your sight.’


even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?


He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.


Reconsider; don’t be unjust. Reconsider; my righteousness  is still the issue.


Now then, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.


Let us judge for ourselves what is right; let us decide together what is good.


Jacob, why do you say, and Israel, why do you assert, ‘My way is hidden from the  Lord, and my claim is ignored by my God’?


Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?


I cry out, ‘Violence! ’ but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice.





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