Quotes About Accountability

“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?

You have said, ëMy doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.í

Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

Will you speak wickedly on Godís behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?

Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?

Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

It is said that God lays up oneís punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”