Is it possible to be like Job? Whose example do we follow?

Job 42:7
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And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger blazes against you and your two friends! You have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.

Job 23:10
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Yet he knows my way; if he tested me, I should come forth like gold.

Job 10:6-8
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That you seek for guilt in me and search after my sins, Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand? Your hands have formed me and fashioned me; will you then turn and destroy me?

Job 27:1-6
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Job took up his theme again and said: As God lives, who takes away my right, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter, So long as I still have life breath in me, the breath of God in my nostrils, My lips shall not speak falsehood, nor my tongue utter deceit! Far be it from me to account you right; till I die I will not renounce my innocence. My justice I maintain and I will not relinquish it; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

Job 32:1
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Then the three men ceased to answer Job, because in his own eyes he was in the right.

Job 34:5-6
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For Job has said, “I am innocent, but God has taken away what is my right. I declare the judgment on me to be a lie; my arrow-wound is incurable, sinless though I am.”


Job 9:19-21
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If it be a question of strength, he is mighty; or of judgment, who will call him to account? Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, it might put me in the wrong. I am innocent, but I cannot know it; I despise my life.

Job 2:3
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The Lord said to the satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil. He still holds fast to his innocence although you incited me against him to ruin him for nothing.”

Job 7:20-21
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If I sin, what do I do to you, O watcher of mortals? Why have you made me your target? Why should I be a burden for you? Why do you not pardon my offense, or take away my guilt? For soon I shall lie down in the dust; and should you seek me I shall be gone.

Job 33:8-9
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But you have said in my hearing, as I listened to the sound of your words: I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, there is no guilt in me.

Job 1:22
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In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with wrong.

Job 11:4
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Shall you say: “My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight”?

Job 6:29-30
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Think it over; let there be no injustice. Think it over; I still am right. Is there insincerity on my tongue, or cannot my taste discern falsehood?

Job 9:13-15
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He is God and he does not relent; the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him. How then could I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him! Even though I were right, I could not answer, but should rather beg for what was due me.

Job 29:14
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I wore my righteousness like a garment; justice was my robe and my turban.

Job 16:16-17
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My face is inflamed with weeping, darkness covers my eyes, Although my hands are free from violence, and my prayer sincere.