³³ Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

⁶ Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

³² If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

²⁶ Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

² For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

⁶ Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

⁷ And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

³⁵ Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

²⁰ Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

¹² Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

¹³ But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

¹⁴ Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

³¹ Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

³¹ If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

¹¹ Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

¹¹ For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

⁵ If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

⁴ He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

¹² Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?