◄ Job 34 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Then Elihu answered and said:
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2“Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10“Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world?
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16“If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see,
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways,
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.’
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
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Job 33
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