Job 34:23
For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
In Context
22There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.
24He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.
Cross References
Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us, for our most wicked deeds, and our great sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved us from our iniquity, and hast given us a deliverance as at this day,
Job 9:32For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
Job 11:11For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity, doth he not consider it?
Job 23:7Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.
Jeremiah 2:5Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Matthew Henry on Job 34:17-31
16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words. 17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands. 20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken… Read the whole commentary →