Job 34:23
Good News Translation
God does not need to set a time for us to go and be judged by him.

New Revised Standard Version
For he has not appointed a time for anyone to go before God in judgment.

Contemporary English Version
And so, God doesn't need to set a time for judgment.

New American Bible
For no one has God set a time to come before him in judgment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.

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Job 34:10-12 Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty. . . .

Job 11:6 That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

Ezra 9:13 And 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,

Psalm 119:137 Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.

Isaiah 42:3 The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Daniel 9:7-9 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee. . . .

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Job 9:32,33 For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment. . . .

Job 16:21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 23:7 Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

Jeremiah 2:5 Thus 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?

Romans 9:20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

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Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
22There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity. 23For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.24He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.…
Cross References
Job 11:11
For he knoweth the vanity of men, and when he seeth iniquity, doth he not consider it?

Job 34:24
He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and shall make others to stand in their stead.

Job 34:22
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