Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 24:25

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 24:25 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 24:25. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the book of Job, Job is saying that if what he is claiming isn't true, then someone should prove him wrong. He is confident that what he is saying is right and wants someone to show him if he's mistaken.

Job 24:25: And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Contradiction with Job 21:7

Job questions why the wicked live, grow old, and prosper, which contradicts the idea of retribution or divine justice in Job 24:25.

Job 21:7: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Contradiction with Psalm 73:3-5

The psalmist observes that the wicked prosper and live without trouble, contradicting the retribution implied in Job 24:25.

Psalm 73:3-5: For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

Jeremiah questions why the wicked prosper, challenging the idea that justice is served as implied in Job 24:25.

Jeremiah 12:1: Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [talk...: or, reason the case with thee]

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:14

The writer notes that sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve and vice versa, contradicting the straightforward justice of Job 24:25.

Ecclesiastes 8:14: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.
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