Job 27:12 Cross References - LITV

¹² Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; when then do you become vain with this vanity?

²⁵ Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue? ²⁶ Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind? ²⁷ Yea, you cause even an orphan to fall; and you bargain over your friend. ²⁸ And now, please look on me. For if I lie, it is before your face. ²⁹ Turn back, I beseech you; let there be no wrong. Yea, return again, for my righteousness is in it.

⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers. ⁵ Oh that you would stop speaking entirely; and it would be your wisdom! ⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the arguments of my lips. ⁷ Would you speak unrighteously for God and speak deceitfully for Him? ⁸ Will you lift up His face, or will you contend for God? ⁹ Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him? Is it good that He should search you out?

³ Is there an end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

² Are not mockeries with me? And my eye rests on their insults.

² Until when will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? ³ And this, ten times you have shamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

³ Rise with me and I shall speak; then after I have spoken, you may mock.

²⁸ for you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the tent, the dwellings of the wicked? ²⁹ Did you not ask those who go along the highway; and do you not know their signs? ³⁰ For the wicked is kept for the day of calamity; they shall be brought to the day of wrath.

² How have you helped the powerless, or saved the arm with no strength? ³ How have you advised the ones not wise or fully declared wise plans? ⁴ With whom have you spoken words? And whose breath came forth from you?

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done on the earth: There are just ones to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

¹ For all this I gave to heart, even to explain all this, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. Whether love or hatred, man does not know all that is before them. ² All happens alike to all; one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him who sacrifices, and to him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who swears is as he that fears an oath. ³ This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart throughout their lives; and after that, they go to the dead.