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Job 34:24-37

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24“He breaks in pieces the mighty without investigation,

And sets others in their place.

25“Therefore He knows their deeds,

And He overthrows them in the night,

And they are crushed.

26“He strikes them like the wicked

In a public place,

27Because they turned aside from following Him,

And had no regard for any of His ways,

28So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,

And that He would hear the cry of the afflicted—

29When He keeps quiet, who can condemn?

And when He hides His face, who then can look at Him,

That is, regarding both nation and a person?—

30“So that godless people would not rule,

Nor be snares for the people.

31“For has anyone said to God,

‘I have endured punishment;

I will not offend anymore;

32Teach me what I do not see;

If I have done wrong,

I will not do it again’?

33“Shall God repay on your terms, because you have rejected His?

For you must choose, and not I;

Therefore declare what you know.

34“Men of understanding will say to me,

And a wise man who hears me,

35‘Job speaks without knowledge,

And his words are without wisdom.

36‘Oh that Job were tested to the limit,

Because he answers like sinners.

37‘For he adds rebellion to his sin;

He claps his hands among us,

And multiplies his words against God.’ ”