You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’
Nehemiah 9:33 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You are righteous concerning all that has happened to us, because you have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly; American Standard Version (1901) Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; Common English Bible You have been just in all that has happened to us; you have acted faithfully, and we have done wrong. Catholic Public Domain Version For you are just, concerning all things that have overwhelmed us. For you have done truth, but we have acted impiously. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly. |
You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ’
Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we survive as a remnant today. Here we are before you with our guilt, though no one can stand in your presence because of this.
Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your law or listen to your commands and warnings you gave them.
You found his heart faithful in your sight, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites – to give it to his descendants. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.
He will look at men and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
God does not need to examine a person further, that one should approach him in court.
So Moses returned to the Lord and said, ‘Oh, these people have committed a grave sin; they have made a god of gold for themselves.
You will be righteous, Lord, even if I bring a case against you. Yet I wish to contend with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous live at ease?
because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.
The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.
so that you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practised. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.” ’