Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
    and (A)enters into judgment with you?

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“Is it for your piety that he rebukes you
    and brings charges against you?(A)

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And do you (A)open your eyes on such a one
    and (B)bring me into judgment with you?

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Do you fix your eye on them?(A)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me

(A)Enter not into judgment with your servant,
    for no one living is righteous (B)before you.

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Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous(A) before you.

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19 (A)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

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19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.(A) So be earnest and repent.(B)

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14 The Lord will enter into judgment
    with the (A)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (B)have devoured[a] the vineyard,
    (C)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by (D)crushing my people,
    by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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  1. Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5

14 The Lord enters into judgment(A)
    against the elders and leaders of his people:
“It is you who have ruined my vineyard;
    the plunder(B) from the poor(C) is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by crushing my people(D)
    and grinding(E) the faces of the poor?”(F)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.(G)

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If you, O Lord, should (A)mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could (B)stand?
But with you there is (C)forgiveness,
    (D)that you may be feared.

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If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)
But with you there is forgiveness,(B)
    so that we can, with reverence, serve you.(C)

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16 They have (A)burned it with fire; they have (B)cut it down;
    may they perish at (C)the rebuke of your face!

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16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;(A)
    at your rebuke(B) your people perish.

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At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
    both (A)rider and horse lay stunned.

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At your rebuke,(A) God of Jacob,
    both horse and chariot(B) lie still.

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11 When you discipline a man
    with (A)rebukes for sin,
you (B)consume like a (C)moth what is dear to him;
    (D)surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

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11 When you rebuke(A) and discipline(B) anyone for their sin,
    you consume(C) their wealth like a moth(D)
    surely everyone is but a breath.(E)

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23 For God[a] has no need to consider a man further,
    that he should go before God in (A)judgment.

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  1. Job 34:23 Hebrew he

23 God has no need to examine people further,(A)
    that they should come before him for judgment.(B)

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Would he (A)contend with me in the greatness of his power?
    No; he would pay attention to me.
There an upright man could argue with him,
    and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

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Would he vigorously oppose me?(A)
    No, he would not press charges against me.(B)
There the upright(C) can establish their innocence before him,(D)
    and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.(E)

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29 be afraid of the sword,
    for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
    that you may know there is (A)a judgment.”

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29 you should fear the sword yourselves;
    for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,(A)
    and then you will know that there is judgment.[a](B)

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  1. Job 19:29 Or sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty

21 that he would (A)argue the case of a man with God,
    as[a] a son of man does with his neighbor.

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  1. Job 16:21 Hebrew and

21 on behalf of a man he pleads(A) with God
    as one pleads for a friend.

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