Job 21:14-15
14They say to God, a‘Depart from us!We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 bWhat is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what cprofit do we get if we pray to him?’
Isaiah 58:3
3 d‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, ▼
▼Or pursue your own business
fand oppress all your workers.
Jeremiah 2:31
31And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?
Jeremiah 44:16-18
16“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, gwe will not listen to you. 17 hBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to ithe queen of heaven jand pour out drink offerings to her, kas we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. 18But since we left off making offerings to lthe queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything mand have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”Ezekiel 18:25-29
25 n“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? 26 oWhen a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die. 27Again, pwhen a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life. 28Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?Matthew 20:12
12saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and qthe scorching heat.’
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