The Israelite interpretation of justice faces some conflict. In the Death Of Moses passage, it is implied that because Moses served God, his death was just, despite not being rewarded for his labor and dying directly before reaching the promise land. However, then, God speaks to Abraham and his mind is changed about what is just- negotiating his way from, "fifty innocent within the city (WW Ch.5)" to his final conviction, "I will not destroy, for the sake of ten (WW Ch. 5)." Here lies an implication that maybe the divine's sense of justice is not all knowing and that perhaps the human judicial instinct is something truly novel to our species. There seems to lie two schools of thought. The first being that doing what is right means following God's order no matter what (as is seen with Job approaching all of his misfortune but continuing his faith and being rewarded for it in the end). And the second seems to exemplify that there is no divine justice, and that true religion is doing what is right regardless, best emulated in the Book of Job's analysis, "others believe God's words imply so system of divine justice and that authentic religious faith requires human righteousness in spite of this fact (WW Ch.5)," and in the decision of God's to make Gob suffer despite his proven loyalty. It was clear that they had a sense of what seemed objectively right or wrong based off the lists of rules written down, including the Proverbs. The question seemed more to stem from where that right and wrong ideal came from. Man or God?
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