Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”
“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
“Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong. For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him. Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!”
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
“Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
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.”
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty, 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;
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
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