11:14 if
and do not let evil reside in your tents.
12:6 But
and those who provoke God are confident
who carry their god in their hands.
22:5 Is not your wickedness great
and is there no end to your iniquity?
22:6 “For you took pledges
for no reason,
and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
22:7 You gave the weary
and from the hungry you withheld food.
22:8 Although you were a powerful man,
an honored man
22:9 you sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms
29:12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help,
and the orphan who
29:13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me,
and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
29:14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me,
my just dealing
29:15 I was eyes for the blind
and feet for the lame;
29:16 I was a father
and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;
29:17 I broke the fangs
and made him drop
IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy (29:1-31:40)
Job Recalls His Former Condition29:1 Then Job continued
8:3 Does God pervert
Or does the Almighty pervert
12:3 I also have understanding
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these?
7:2 Faithful men have disappeared
there are no godly men left.
They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood;
they hunt their own brother with a net.
5:11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops
and exact a grain tax from them,
you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone,
nor will you drink the wine from the fine
5:12 Certainly
and your numerous sins.
You
and you deny justice to