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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Elihu continued speaking, and said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Listen to what I have to say, you wise men! Pay attention to me, you educated people! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Since the ear tests words like a palate tastes food, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4let's choose what's right for us. Let's consider among ourselves what is good." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now this is Job's claim: 'Even though I'm innocent, God has stopped treating me righteously. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Have I lied concerning the justice that I deserve? My wound is incurable, though transgression cannot be attributed to me.' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8traffics in those who practice evil, and walks with wicked people? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Because he says, 'There's no profit for a man to find joy with God.'" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Therefore you men of understanding, listen to me! Far be it for God to practice wickedness, or the Almighty to do what is wrong, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11because he repays a person for his behavior; and according to a person's conduct, he lets it happen to him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Truly, God doesn't practice wickedness, and the Almighty doesn't pervert justice. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who entrusted the earth to him? Who made him responsible for the entire inhabited world? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15every living thing would die all at once, and mankind would return to dust." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If you have understanding, listen to this! Pay attention to what I have to say: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Can one who hates justice really govern? And if God is righteous and mighty, can you condemn him? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Can one say to a king, 'You're vile!' or to nobles, 'You're wicked!'? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Who isn't partial to princes? Who doesn't give preference to the nobles over the poor? Nevertheless, all of them are his handiwork. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"They die suddenly, in the middle of the night; people suffer seizures and pass away; even valiant men can be taken away— and not by human hands. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Yes, Job, his eyes constantly watch the behavior of human beings; he carefully observes their every step. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22There's no such thing as darkness to him— not even deep darkness— that can conceal those who practice evil. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He won't examine mankind further, that they would go before God to judgment. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He shatters valiant men without a need to investigate, and he raises others in their place. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Thus he acknowledges their behavior, and overcomes them; when night time comes, they are crushed. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"He strikes the wicked among them in a place where they can be seen |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27because they've abandoned their pursuit of him and had no respect for any of his ways. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28As a result, the cries of the poor have reached him and he has heard the cry of the afflicted. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"If he remains silent, who will condemn him? If he conceals his face, who can see him? He watches over both nation and individual alike, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30to keep the godless man from reigning or laying a snare for the people." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"Has anyone ever really told God, 'I've endured, and I won't act corruptly anymore. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32What I don't see, instruct me! If I've done anything evil, I won't repeat it!' |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Should you not be paid back, since you have rejected him? You do the choosing! I won't! Tell us what you know! |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Men of understanding, speak to me! Are any of you men wise? Then listen to me! |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight! |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil, |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37because he has been adding rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and keeps on ranting against God." |
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