Quotes About Justice

Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widowís ox in pledge.

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

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

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Job continued his discourse:

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.

This is the wicked manís portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.