Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair.

Yet the children of your people say, The way of Jehovah is not fair. But as for them, it is their way which is not fair!

Yet you say, The way of Jehovah is not fair. O house of Israel, I shall judge each one of you according to his ways.

Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job; his wrath was kindled because he was justifying his soul more than God.

For Job has said, I am righteous, but the Mighty God has taken away my justice;

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water,

For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is pleasing to 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?

Grant me this request, and I will speak: I will inquire of You, and You declare to me.

Therefore I despise myself, and have repented in dust and ashes.

You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you say, In what way have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and He delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. Yet you say, What have we spoken against you?

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Those that work wickedness are built up; they even test God, and escape.

And when they had received it, they murmured against the landowner,

But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

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?

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

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?

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice, a Mighty God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

Let the heavens declare His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah.

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

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?

The righteous Jehovah is in her midst; He will do no wrong. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He does not fail, but the unjust knows no shame.

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,

who will render to each one according to his works:

These things you have done, and I have kept silent; you thought that I was like yourself; but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Have you not brought this upon yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?

Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Yet I planted you a noble vine, a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?

How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crisscrossing its ways.

Why will you plead with Me? You all have rebelled against Me, says Jehovah.

O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam freely; we will come no more to You?

Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught the evil women your ways.

Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

Indeed, you shall go out from this place, with your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

And it shall be, when you proclaim to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have sinned against Jehovah our God?

And you have done worse than your fathers; for behold, you walk, each one, after the stubbornness of his evil heart, and do not listen to Me.