Job 13:7 Cross References - BSB

⁷ Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

⁷ Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

² “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated? ³ Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke? ⁴ You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

⁵ If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

⁴ my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

²¹ I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man. ²² For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

⁴ For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.

² They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms. ⁶ Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world? ⁷ However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner? ⁸ Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

² Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.