Job 40:8 Cross References - Thomson

⁸ Decline not the trial with Me. Dost thou think that I have spoken to thee for any other purpose, but that thou mayst appear justified?

³ Is it agreeable to thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing thou hast rejected the works of thy hands; and favoured the counsel of the wicked?

² As God liveth, who hath thus condemned me; even the Almighty who hath made my life bitter: ³ while I have the power of breathing and the breath of God is in my nostrils; ⁴ my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor shall my soul contrive mischief. ⁵ Far be it from me to acknowledge you to be right; for till I die, I will not give up mine innocence. ⁶ And for asserting my righteousness I make no apology; for I am not conscious to myself of having done amiss.

² Then was kindled the wrath of Elius the son of Barachiel the Buzite, of the family of Earn, of the country of Ausitis. His wrath was kindled against Job to a high degree, because he had declared himself just before the Lord:

⁵ For Job hath said, "I am righteous: the Lord hath removed from me the trial; ⁶ and hath disappointed me of my trial. My wound is grievous without transgression."

² What thinkest thou of this in thy pleading? Who art thou that thou shouldst say, "I am righteous before the Lord?" ³ Or wilt thou say, "What can I do if I sin?"

⁴ Against thee especially I have sinned; and in thy sight done this evil. So that thou must be justified in thine acts, and must overcome, when thou art judged.

²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside?

¹⁸ and that it would not break your treaty with death; the hope which you have with respect to the grave shall not last: when the furious tempest cometh, by it you shall be beaten down.

⁴ No, by no means. Yea, let God be true, though every man be a liar, as it is written, " So that thou must be justified in thy acts and must overcome when thou art judged."

¹⁵ Brethren [I speak according to the practice of men] as no one disannulleth the covenant of a man, or superaddeth to it when it is ratified;

¹⁷ now this I say that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul a covenant ratified by God for Christ, so as to put a stop to the promise.

¹⁸ Here then is a disannulment of a preceding commandment on account of its weakness and inutility,