| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Elihu continued, saying: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you knowledgeable ones. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Doesn't the ear test words as the palate tastes food? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let us judge for ourselves what is right; let us decide together what is good. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For Job has declared, "I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For he has said, "A man gains nothing when he becomes God's friend." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding. It is impossible for God to do wrong, and for the Almighty to act unjustly. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For He repays a person according to his deeds, and He brings his ways on him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly and the Almighty does not pervert justice. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who gave Him authority over the earth? Who put Him in charge of the entire world? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If He put His mind to it and withdrew the spirit and breath He gave, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15every living thing would perish together and mankind would return to the dust. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I have to say. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Could one who hates justice govern the world? Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18who says to a king, "Worthless man!" and to nobles, "Wicked men!"? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19God is not partial to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of His hands. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20They die suddenly in the middle of the night; people shudder, then pass away. Even the mighty are removed without effort. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For His eyes watch over a man's ways, and He observes all his steps. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22There is no darkness, no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23God does not need to examine a person further, that one should approach Him in court. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He shatters the mighty without an investigation and sets others in their place. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Therefore, He recognizes their deeds and overthrows them by night, and they are crushed. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26In full view of the public, He strikes them for their wickedness, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27because they turned aside from following Him and did not understand any of His ways |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28but caused the poor to cry out to Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both individuals and nations, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30so that godless men should not rule or ensnare the people. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Suppose someone says to God, "I have endured my punishment; I will no longer act wickedly. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I won't do it again." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Should God repay you on your terms when you have rejected His? You must choose, not I! So declare what you know. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Reasonable men will say to me, along with the wise men who hear me, |
| 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] | 36If only Job were tested to the limit, because his answers are like those of wicked men. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he scornfully claps in our presence, while multiplying his words against God. |
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