Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive? You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart. But you, O Lord, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
“But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you. Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted. And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction, then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’ who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right; in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’ What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
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