Job 34:33–36

³²If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

⁹Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

¹¹For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

³¹Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

⁶Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

⁶Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

⁷And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

²⁶Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

²For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

³¹Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

⁴He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

⁵If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

¹¹Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹²Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

¹²Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

¹³But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

¹⁴Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

¹⁵Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

³⁰If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

³¹If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

³²Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³⁵Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

¹⁵I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

¹⁰Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

¹⁶If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

²Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

⁴Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

¹⁶Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

²Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

²What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

²Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

³Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

¹¹Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

⁶The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

¹⁵Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

¹⁶For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

¹WHY, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

⁸Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

³Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

²Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.