Does the Mighty God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Truly I know it is so; but how can a man be just before the Mighty God?

Do you think this is just? Do you say, I am more righteous than the Mighty God?

Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

Jehovah is righteous in all His ways, and kind in all His works.

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

Righteous are You, O Jehovah, when I complain to You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those who deceive with treachery at ease?

But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Let it not be! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: That You may be found just in Your words, and may win the case when You are judged.

Let it not be! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

No, rather, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes would abhor me.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be just before the Mighty God? Or how can one be pure who is born of a woman?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

And He said, What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

The four living creatures, each had six wings around, and were full of eyes within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!