Job 10:3 Cross References - KJ2000

³ Is it good unto you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile upon the counsel of the wicked?

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he help the evil doers:

²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces of its judges; if not he, who then is it?

¹⁵ You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.

¹⁶ Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my justice. ⁶ Should I lie concerning my right? my wound is incurable though I am without transgression. ⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?

¹⁸ Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly? ¹⁹ How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

⁷ He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings they are on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted. ⁸ And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction; ⁹ Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have exceeded.

¹⁷ But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you. ¹⁸ Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

² Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

⁸ Will you also annul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?

³³ For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

⁸ The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures forever: forsake not the works of your own hands.

⁸ But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

¹ Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously? ² You have planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. ³ But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tested my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

² He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. ³ Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day. ⁴ My flesh and my skin has he made old: he has broken my bones. ⁵ He has besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail. ⁶ He has set me in dark places, like they that are long dead. ⁷ He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy. ⁸ Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. ⁹ He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰ He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate. ¹² He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. ¹³ He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my heart. ¹⁴ I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood. ¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes. ¹⁷ And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity. ¹⁸ And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:

¹⁹ Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.