Job 6:29
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
BSB
ASV
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
KJV
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Return--rather, "retract" your charges: let it not be iniquity--that is, (retract) that injustice may not be done me. Yea retract, "my righteousness is in it"; that is, my right is involved in this matter.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Through
Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
leads to
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
Through
Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
leads to
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the…