Job 40:8

40:8 Would you indeed annul ¹  my justice?

Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Ezekiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ²  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ³ 

[40:8]  ¹ tn The verb פָּרַר (parar) means “to annul; to break; to frustrate.” It was one thing for Job to claim his own integrity, but it was another matter altogether to nullify God’s righteousness in the process.

[9:9]  ² tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

[9:9]  ³ sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.