Job 9:29 Cross References

Job 9:29

29: Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what's the use of trying?

Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to him. That is why I say, `He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'

But their prosperity is not of their own doing, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.
"Yet the wicked get away with it time and time again. They rarely have trouble, and God skips them when he distributes sorrows in his anger.

Not at all! It is because of your wickedness! Your guilt has no limit!
"For example, you must have lent money to your friend and then kept the clothing he gave you as a pledge. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry.
After all, you think the land belongs to the powerful and that those who are privileged have a right to it!
You must have sent widows away without helping them and crushed the strength of orphans.

And yet you say, `I haven't done anything wrong. Surely he isn't angry with me!' Now I will punish you severely because you claim you have not sinned.

I will say to God, `Don't simply condemn me--tell me the charge you are bringing against me.

But the LORD will not let the wicked succeed or let the godly be condemned when they are brought before the judge.

was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my iniquity.
If I am guilty, too bad for me. And even if I'm innocent, I am filled with shame and misery so that I can't hold my head high.
And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.
Again and again you witness against me. You pour out an ever-increasing volume of anger upon me and bring fresh armies against me.

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