Job 34:33
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33 Will he then pay back to suit you
because you reject it?
For you must choose and not I;
therefore declare what you know.[a]
Psalm 135:6
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6 Whatever the Lord pleases he does,
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all deeps.(A)
Job 33:32
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32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.
Hebrews 11:26
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26 He considered abuse suffered for the Christ[a] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.
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- 11.26 Or the Messiah
Hebrews 2:2
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2 For if the message declared through angels proved valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,(A)
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2 Thessalonians 1:6-7
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6 For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you 7 and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels(A)
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Romans 11:35
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35 “Or who has given a gift to him,
to receive a gift in return?”
Romans 9:20
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20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(A)
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Matthew 20:12-15
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12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’(A) 13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?(B) 14 Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’[a](C)
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- 20.15 Gk is your eye evil because I am good?
Isaiah 45:9
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9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
or “Your work has no handles”?(A)
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- 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters
Proverbs 11:31
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31 If the righteous are repaid on earth,
how much more the wicked and the sinner!(A)
Psalm 89:30-32
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30 If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my ordinances,(A)
31 if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with scourges,(B)
Job 41:11
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Job 34:11
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11 For according to their deeds he will repay them,
and according to their ways he will make it befall them.(A)
Job 33:5
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5 Answer me, if you can;
set your words in order before me; take your stand.(A)
Job 18:4
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4 You who tear yourself in your anger—
shall the earth be forsaken because of you
or the rock be removed out of its place?(A)
Job 15:31
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31 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,
for emptiness will be their recompense.(A)
Job 9:12
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12 He snatches away; who can stop him?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’(A)
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