33 In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous;(A) you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.(B)

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33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

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10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(A)

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.

10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(A)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.(B)
    How then can we be saved?
All of us have become like one who is unclean,(C)
    and all our righteous(D) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(E)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(F)
No one(G) calls on your name(H)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(I) your face from us
    and have given us over(J) to[a] our sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

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39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?(A)

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39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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Because I have sinned against him,
    I will bear the Lord’s wrath,(A)
until he pleads my case(B)
    and upholds my cause.
He will bring me out into the light;(C)
    I will see his righteousness.(D)

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I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

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