¹⁷ Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

³ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: One who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

²¹ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?

²² In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

⁶ May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

⁷ For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!