Should the one who hates right-ruling govern? Or would you declare a most righteous one wrong?
“Far be it from You to act in this way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”
But Aḇ
“The Elohim of Yisra’ĕ
In all this Iyoḇ
If you have understanding, hear this! Give ear to the sound of my words:
Who shall say to a sovereign: ‘Beliyaʽ
So that a defiled one should not reign, lest the people be ensnared.
Would you also set aside My judgment? Would you pronounce Me wrong, and you be declared righteous?
What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with Elohim? Let it not be!