“ Would you dare to claim that I am not being fair? Would you judge me in order to make yourself seem right?

你岂可废弃我所拟定的？岂可定我有罪，好显自己为义吗？

你岂可废弃我的判断？岂可定我有罪，好显自己为义吗？

你岂可废弃我的判断？岂可定我有罪，好显自己为义吗？

你要推翻我的公义，归罪于我而自以为义吗？

你怎能废弃我所审断的？怎能定我为有罪，好显出你自己为义呢？

你豈可廢棄我所擬定的？豈可定我有罪，好顯自己為義嗎？

你豈可廢棄我的判斷？豈可定我有罪，好顯自己為義嗎？

你豈可廢棄我的判斷？豈可定我有罪，好顯自己為義嗎？

你要推翻我的公義，歸罪於我而自以為義嗎？

你怎能廢棄我所審斷的？怎能定我為有罪，好顯出你自己為義呢？

難道你真地要破壞我的權利，定我為惡，以顯自己為義麼？

爾欲廢我所擬、罪我以義己乎、

爾豈可廢棄我命、自以為義、而以不義之名委我。

爾豈可廢棄我命、爾因欲以己為是、而以我為非乎、爾因欲以己為是而以我為非乎或作爾以己為義以不義歸我乎

“ Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?

“ Will you discredit my justice and condemn me just to prove you are right?

Would you really challenge my justice? Would you declare me guilty to justify yourself?

Will you really nullify My judgment? Will you condemn Me so that you may be justified?

“ Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

Would you really challenge My justice? Would you declare Me guilty to justify yourself?

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

But Elihu the Buzite was very angry with Job. That’s because Job said he himself was right instead of God. Elihu was the son of Barakel. He was from the family of Ram.

Your covenant with death will be called off. The agreement you made with the place of the dead will not stand. When the terrible plague comes to punish you, you will be struck down by it.

Not at all! God is true, even if every human being is a liar. It is written,“ You are right when you sentence me. You are fair when you judge me.”( Psalm 51:4)

“ Job says,‘ I’m not guilty of doing anything wrong. But God doesn’t treat me fairly.Even though I’m right, he thinks I’m a liar. Even though I’m not guilty, his arrows give me wounds that can’t be healed.’

Does it make you happy when you crush me? Does it please you to turn your back on what you have made? While you do those things, you smile on the plans of sinful people!

“ God hasn’t treated me fairly. The Mighty One has made my life bitter. You can be sure that God lives. And here’s something else you can be sure of.As long as I have life and God gives me breath,my mouth won’t say evil things. My lips won’t tell lies.I’ll never admit you people are right. Until I die, I’ll say I’m telling the truth.I’ll continue to say I’m right. I’ll never let go of that. I won’t blame myself as long as I live.

Brothers and sisters, let me give you an example from everyday life. No one can get rid of an official agreement between people. No one can add to it. It can’t be changed after it has been made. It is the same with God’s covenant agreement.

The Lord who rules over all has planned it. Who can stop him? He has reached out his powerful hand. Who can keep him from using it?

“ Job, do you think it’s fair for you to say,‘ I am the one who is right, not God’?You ask him,‘ What good is it for me not to sin? What do I get by not sinning?’

You are the one I’ve really sinned against. I’ve done what is evil in your sight. So you are right when you sentence me. You are fair when you judge me.

The old rule is set aside. It was weak and useless.

Here is what I mean. The law came 430 years after the promise. But the law does not get rid of God’s covenant and promise. The covenant had already been made by God. So the law does not do away with the promise.