Jeremiah 12:1
Right wouldest Thou be, O LORD, were I to contend with Thee, yet will I reason with Thee: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.
Job 8:17His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
Job 13:3Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 24:12From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.
Psalms 37:1A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.
Psalms 51:4(51-6) Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in Thy sight; that Thou mayest be justified when Thou speakest, and be in the right when Thou judgest.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 12:1
In this chapter we have, I. The prophet's humble complaint to God of the success that wicked people had in their wicked practices ( ver. 1, 2 ) and his appeal to God concerning his own integrity ( ver. 3 ), with a prayer that God would, for the sake of the public, bring the wickedness of the wicked to an end, ver. 3, 4 . II. God's rebuke to the prophet for his uneasiness at his present troubles, bidding him prepare for greater, ver. 5, 6 . III. A sad lamentation of the present deplorable state of the Israel of… Read the whole commentary →