Job 34:5-9, 17, 36, 36:17, Psa 73:3-15, Mal 3:13-15, Mat 11:18-19 | ESV | STEP | For Job has said , I am in the right , and God has taken away my right ;

v[See ver. 5 above]

w Rev. 3:19

x[Ps. 101:8]

y[Ps. 14:5]

ai ch. 9:10; Luke 7:36; 14:1; John 2:1; 12:2

aj ch. 9:11; Luke 15:2; 19:7

ak ch. 18:17

Job 34:5-9

5 For Job has said, ‘I am ^ain the right,
and ^bGod has taken away my right;
6 in spite of my right I am counted a liar;
my wound is incurable, though I am ^cwithout transgression.’
7 What man is like Job,
who ^ddrinks up scoffing like water,
8 who travels in company with evildoers
and walks ^ewith wicked men?
9 For ^fhe has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.’

Job 34:17

17 ^gShall one who hates justice govern?
Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,

Job 34:36

36 Would that Job were tried to the end,
because he answers like wicked men.

Job 36:17

17 “But you are full of the judgment on the wicked;
judgment and justice seize you.

Psalms 73:3-15

3 ^hFor I was ⁱenvious of the arrogant
when I saw the ^jprosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs until death;
their bodies are fat and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not ^kstricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is ^ltheir necklace;
violence covers them as ^ma garment.
7 Their ⁿeyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and ^ospeak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
and find ^pno fault in them. ^{▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them}
11 And they say, ^r“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they ^sincrease in riches.
13 All in vain have I ^tkept my heart clean
and ^uwashed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been ^vstricken
and ^wrebuked ^xevery morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed ^ythe generation of your children.

Malachi 3:13-15

13 ^z“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. ^aaBut you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’ 14 You have said, ^ab‘It is vain to serve God. ^acWhat is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call ^adthe arrogant blessed. ^aeEvildoers not only prosper but ^afthey put God to the test and they escape.’”

Matthew 11:18-19

18 For John came ^agneither eating ^ahnor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man came ^aieating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, ^aja friend of ^aktax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.” ^{▼▼Some manuscripts children (compare Luke 7:35)}