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Job|34:1|-|Then Elihu continued and said,
Job|34:2|-|Hear my words, you wise men;And you who know, give ear to me.
Job|34:3|-|For the |a|ear tries wordsAs the palate tastes food.
Job|34:4|-|Let us choose for ourselves what is right;Let us know among ourselves what is |a|good.
Job|34:5|-|For Job has said, I am righteous,And God has |1|taken away my |a|right;
Job|34:6|-|Should I lie against my right?My arrow wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
Job|34:7|-|What man is like Job,Who drinks up scoffing like water,
Job|34:8|-|Who goes in company with the workers of iniquityAnd walks with wicked men?
Job|34:9|-|For he has said, It does not |a|profit a manTo delight himself in God.
Job|34:10|-|Therefore, you men of understanding, hear me:Far be it from God that He would do evil,
And from the Almighty that He would commit iniquity.
Job|34:11|-|For He will |a|render a man’s work to himAnd will cause a man to find that which is according to his own way.
Job|34:12|-|Indeed in all certainty God will not do evil,And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Job|34:13|-|Who has ever put the |a|earth in His charge?Or who has ever set in order the whole world?
Job|34:14|-|If He were to consider Himself only,He would gather back to Himself His |a|spirit and His breath;
Job|34:15|-|All flesh would perish together,And man would return to |a|dust.
Job|34:16|-|If then you have understanding, hear this;Give ear to the voice of my words.
Job|34:17|-|Shall one who hates justice govern?And will you condemn the just and mighty One,
Job|34:18|-|He who says to a king, You worthless one!And to nobles, You wicked one!
Job|34:19|-|He who does not |a|respect the persons of princes,Nor regard the rich man more than the poor,
For they are all the work of His hands?
Job|34:20|-|In a moment they die, and in the middle of the nightThe people are shaken, and they pass away;
And the mighty are taken away, but by no human hand.
Job|34:21|-|For His |a|eyes are upon the ways of a man,And He sees all his steps.
Job|34:22|-|There is no darkness and no shadow of deathWhere the workers of iniquity may |a|hide themselves.
Job|34:23|-|For He does not need to consider a man further,That he should go to God in litigation.
Job|34:24|-|He breaks mighty men in pieces without inquiryAnd puts others in their stead.
Job|34:25|-|Hence He knows their actions,And He overturns them in the night so that they are crushed.
Job|34:26|-|He strikes them as He would evil men,In a place where all can see;
Job|34:27|-|Because they turned aside from following after HimAnd would not regard any of His ways,
Job|34:28|-|So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,And He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job|34:29|-|When He is silent, who can condemn Him?When He hides His face, who can behold Him?
He does so toward a nation and toward a man alike,
Job|34:30|-|That no profane man would reign, that there would be no snares for thepeople.
Job|34:31|-|For has anyone ever said to God,I have borne chastisement; I will offend no more;
Job|34:32|-|What I do not see teach me;If I have committed iniquity, I will do it no more?
Job|34:33|-|Should He recompense to fit you, since you have rejected it?For you must choose, and not I.
So speak what you know.
Job|34:34|-|Men of understanding will say to me,As well as the man of wisdom who hears me,
Job|34:35|-|Job has spoken without knowledge,And his words are without insight.
Job|34:36|-|I wish that Job were tried to the limitBecause of his answering like evil men.
Job|34:37|-|For he adds |1|rebellion to his sin;Among us he |2|claps his hands
And multiplies his words against God.
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