16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Job 15:16
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Job 25:5–6
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Job 4:16–18
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3 For it is written; There was no form before mine eyes; only I heard a breath and a voice. (1CL) 4 What then? Shall a mortal be clean in the sight of the Lord; or shall a man be unblamable for his works? seeing that He is distrustful against His servants and noteth som… (1CL)
2 Esdras 8:33–35
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Job 35:1–3
1 And Elihu went on to say: 2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
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Amos 5:6–8
6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it. 7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. 8 He who made the Pleiades and…
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