Job 8:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

2 Chronicles 19:7

Now, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take care what you do, for there is no perversion of justice with the Lord our God or partiality or taking of bribes.”

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

Job 19:7

Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

Job 21:20

Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 34:5

For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

Job 35:13

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

Job 36:23

Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?

Job 36:3

I will bring my knowledge from far away and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 37:23

The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Job 4:17

‘Can mortals be righteous before God? Can humans be pure before their Maker?

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Job 9:2

“Indeed, I know that this is so, but how can a mortal be just before God?

Psalm 89:14

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Psalm 99:4

Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is unfair.” Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way unfair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?

Ezekiel 33:17

Yet your people say, “The way of the Lord is not just,” when it is their own way that is not just.

Ezekiel 33:20

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not just.” O house of Israel, I will judge all of you according to your ways!

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord kept watch over this calamity until he brought it upon us. Indeed, the Lord our God is right in all that he has done, for we have disobeyed his voice.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Deuteronomy 32:4

The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “Great and amazing are your deeds, Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, King of the nations!

Revelation 16:7

And I heard the altar respond, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, your judgments are true and just!”