12 “But I tell you, in this you are not right,
    for God is greater than any mortal.(A)

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25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’(A) Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust?(B) Is it not your ways that are unjust?

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“God is mighty,(A) but despises no one;(B)
    he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.(C)

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19 One of you will say to me:(A) “Then why does God still blame us?(B) For who is able to resist his will?”(C) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(D) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(E) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](F) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9

He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay(A) in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,(B) Israel.

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20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(A)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(B)

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“Would you discredit my justice?(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?(B)
Do you have an arm like God’s,(C)
    and can your voice(D) thunder like his?(E)

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“Will the one who contends with the Almighty(A) correct him?(B)
    Let him who accuses God answer him!”(C)

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22 “God is exalted in his power.(A)
    Who is a teacher like him?(B)
23 Who has prescribed his ways(C) for him,(D)
    or said to him, ‘You have done wrong’?(E)

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“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.

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“Do you think this is just?
    You say, ‘I am in the right,(A) not God.’(B)

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

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17 Can someone who hates justice govern?(A)
    Will you condemn the just and mighty One?(B)
18 Is he not the One who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’
    and to nobles,(C) ‘You are wicked,’(D)
19 who shows no partiality(E) to princes
    and does not favor the rich over the poor,(F)
    for they are all the work of his hands?(G)

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10 “So listen to me,(A) you men of understanding.(B)
    Far be it from God to do evil,(C)
    from the Almighty to do wrong.(D)
11 He repays everyone for what they have done;(E)
    he brings on them what their conduct deserves.(F)
12 It is unthinkable that God would do wrong,(G)
    that the Almighty would pervert justice.(H)

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17 I too will have my say;
    I too will tell what I know.(A)

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14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper(A) we hear of him!(B)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”(C)

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22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.(A)

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