that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?