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Job 40:8

Modern English Version

“Will you indeed annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me, that you may be righteous?

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Is it good for You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

You know that I am not wicked, and there is none who can deliver out of Your hand.

Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be justified.

God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

know now that God has bent me and has surrounded me with His net.

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

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused; his wrath was aroused against Job because he justified himself rather than God.

Should he who hates justice govern? And will you condemn Him who is most just?

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when you speak, and blameless when You pass judgment.

For the Lord of Hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trodden down by it.

Put Me in remembrance; let us plead together; state your cause, that you may be justified.

Woe to him who strives with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” Or the thing you are making say, “He has no hands”?

God forbid! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may prevail in Your judging.”

Brothers, I am speaking in human terms: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is ratified, no one annuls or adds to it.

And this I say, that the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul the covenant that was ratified by God in Christ, so as to nullify the promise.

For there is then an annulling of the previous commandment due to its weakness and uselessness.




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