OLD TESTAMENT

Job 34:17

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Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,

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Verse 17. Judgment. How can we hope for redress from God, while he condemns his conduct? Menochius.—How can we bring Job to a sense of his duty, since he entertains such perverse notions? Hebrew “Shall he hold dominion, who hates justice?” If God be unjust, does he deserve our adoration? ( Calmet.) or, “ought not the person to be put in prison, who resists judgment?” Grot. “If thou dost not think that He who hates crimes, and destroys the impious, is eternal and just?” Septuagint Bible.

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