Job 21:27
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27 “Oh, I know your thoughts
and your schemes to wrong me.
Luke 5:22
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22 When Jesus perceived their questionings, he answered them, “Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?
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Psalm 119:86
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86 All your commandments are enduring;
I am persecuted without cause; help me!(A)
1 Peter 2:19
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19 For it is a commendable thing if, being aware of God, a person endures pain while suffering unjustly.
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Psalm 59:4
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4 for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.
Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!(A)
Job 42:7
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Job’s Friends Are Humiliated
7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.(A)
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Job 32:3
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3 he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.[a](A)
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- 32.3 Or answer, and had put God in the wrong
Job 20:29
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29 This is the portion of the wicked from God,
the heritage decreed for them by God.”(A)
Job 20:5
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5 that the exulting of the wicked is short
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
Job 15:20-35
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20 The wicked writhe in pain all their days,
through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.(A)
21 Terrifying sounds are in their ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.(B)
22 They despair of returning from darkness,
and they are destined for the sword.(C)
23 They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;(D)
24 distress and anguish terrify them;
they prevail against them like a king prepared for battle.
25 Because they stretched out their hands against God
and bid defiance to the Almighty,[a](E)
26 running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
27 because they have covered their faces with their fat
and gathered fat upon their loins,(F)
28 they will live in desolate cities,
in houses that no one should inhabit,
houses destined to become heaps of ruins;
29 they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure,
nor will they strike root in the earth;[b](G)
30 they will not escape from darkness;
the flame will dry up their shoots,
and their blossom[c] will be swept away by the wind.(H)
31 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,
for emptiness will be their recompense.(I)
32 It will be paid in full before their time,
and their branch will not be green.(J)
33 They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine,
and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.(K)
34 For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.(L)
35 They conceive mischief and bring forth evil,
and their belly prepares deceit.”(M)
Job 8:3-6
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3 Does God pervert justice?
Or does the Almighty[a] pervert the right?(A)
4 If your children sinned against him,
he delivered them into the power of their transgression.(B)
5 If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,[b](C)
6 if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.(D)
Job 5:3-5
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3 I have seen fools taking root,
but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.(A)
4 Their children are far from safety,
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.(B)
5 The hungry eat their harvest,
and they take it even out of the thorns,[a]
and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.(C)
Job 4:8-11
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8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.(A)
9 By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.(B)
10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions are broken.(C)
11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.(D)
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