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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Elihu answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.' |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely 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] | 19who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person's steps. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows 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 where people can see, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"Has anyone said to God, 'I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.' |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Men of understanding say to me--any wise man listening to me says-- |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God." |
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