Job 24:25
If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
BSB
ASV
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
KJV
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar? - A challenge to anyone to prove the contrary to what he had said. Job had now attacked their main position, and had appealed to facts in defense of what he held. He maintained that, as a matter of fact, the wicked were prospered, that they often lived to old age, and that they then died a peaceful death, without any direct demonstration of the divine displeasure. He boldly appeals, now, to anyone to deny this, or to prove the contrary. The appeal was decisive.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
leads to
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Through
Job 27:4my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
leads to
Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?
You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?
As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’