“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
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