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Job 34

¹Moreover Elihu answered,

²"Hear my words, you wise men; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

³For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.

⁴Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

⁵For Job has said, `I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

⁶Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.`

⁷What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,

⁸Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?

⁹For he has said, `It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.`

¹⁰"Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

¹¹For the work of a man will he render to him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.

¹²Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

¹³Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?

¹⁴If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.

¹⁶"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

¹⁷Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

¹⁸Who says to a king, `Vile!` Or to nobles, `Wicked!`

¹⁹Who doesn`t respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

²⁰In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.

²¹"For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings.

²²There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

²³For he doesn`t need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment.

²⁴He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.

²⁵Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

²⁶He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

²⁷Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn`t have regard in any of his ways:

²⁸So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.

²⁹When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man:

³⁰That the godless man may not reign, That there be no one to ensnare the people.

³¹"For has any said to God, `I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

³²Teach me that which I don`t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more`?

³³Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

³⁴Men of understanding will tell me, Yes, every wise man who hears me:

³⁵`Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.`

³⁶I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

³⁷For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God."

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Chapter 34

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