(A)Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
Yes, your own lips testify against you.

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22 And he said to him, (A)‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. (B)You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

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37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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20 Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me;
Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

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65 (A)Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His (B)blasphemy!

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So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
(A)All who see them shall flee away.

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You asked, (A)‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
(B)Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

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“Would(A) you indeed [a]annul My judgment?
Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 40:8 nullify

“Do you think this is right?
Do you say,
‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
For (A)you say,
‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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“For Job has said, (A)‘I am righteous,
But (B)God has taken away my justice;
(C)Should I lie concerning my right?
My [a]wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
What man is like Job,
(D)Who drinks [b]scorn like water,
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,
And walks with wicked men?
For (E)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
That he should delight in God.’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:6 Lit. arrow
  2. Job 34:7 derision

“Surely you have spoken [a]in my hearing,
And I have heard the sound of your words, saying,
‘I(A) am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.
10 Yet He finds occasions against me,
(B)He counts me as His enemy;
11 (C)He puts my feet in the stocks,
He watches all my paths.’

12 “Look, in this you are not righteous.
I will answer you,
For God is greater than man.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:8 Lit. in my ears

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