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Job 40:8

New King James Version

“Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

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Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, That You should despise the work of Your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated.

God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.

Know then that God has wronged 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 Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rather than God.

Should one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn Him who is most just?

Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.

For the Lord of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?”

Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.

“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?

Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”

Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.

For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness,




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