16 Bible Verses about Is God Unjust?
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Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.
“As God lives, who has taken away my right and denied me justice,
And the Almighty, who has caused bitterness and grief for my soul,
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous [and innocent],
But God has taken away my right;
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
“Yet your people [who are in exile in Babylon] say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right;’ but as for them, it is their own way that is not right.
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ O house of Israel, I will judge you, every one [of you] in accordance with his own ways!”
“Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not wrong to inflict His wrath [on us], is He? (I am speaking in purely human terms.)
“Who has appointed God His way,
And who can say [to Him], ‘You have done wrong’?
“Therefore hear me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from God that He would do wickedness,
And from the Almighty to do wrong.
“Shall one who hates justice [and is an enemy of right] govern?
And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?
[They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises];
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me,
That they have wandered far from Me
And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty?
