Job 8:3
Good News Translation
God never twists justice; he never fails to do what is right.

New Revised Standard Version
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Contemporary English Version
Does God All-Powerful stand in the way of justice?

New American Bible
Does God pervert judgment, does the Almighty pervert justice?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

God.

Job 4:17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 9:2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Job 10:3 Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Job 19:7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.

Job 34:5,12,17-19 For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment. . . .

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

2 Chronicles 19:7 Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

Ezekiel 18:25 And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?

Ezekiel 33:17,20 And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust. . . .

Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Daniel 9:14 And the Lord hath watched upon the evil, and hath brought it upon us: the Lord, our God, is just in all his works which he hath done: for we have not hearkened to his voice.

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

Romans 3:4-6 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . .

Almighty.

Job 21:15,20 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him? . . .

Job 34:10-12 Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty. . . .

Job 35:13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

Job 40:2 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.

Psalm 99:4 And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Revelation 15:3 And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages.

Revelation 16:7 And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
2How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?4Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:…
Cross References
Romans 3:5
But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:4
The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

2 Chronicles 19:7
Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

Job 34:10
Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.

Job 34:12
For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

Job 36:3
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

Job 36:23
Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Job 37:23
We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Job 8:2
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