Job 10:7
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though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
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See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.