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| 34:1 |
Then Elihu continued and said:
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| 34:2 |
"Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
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| 34:3 |
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
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| 34:4 |
Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.
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| 34:5 |
For Job has said, 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
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| 34:6 |
in spite of being right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
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| 34:7 |
Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
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| 34:8 |
who goes in company with evildoers and walks with the wicked?
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| 34:9 |
For he has said, 'It profits one nothing to take delight in God.'
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| 34:10 |
"Therefore, hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
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| 34:11 |
For according to their deeds he will repay them, and according to their ways he will make it befall them.
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| 34:12 |
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
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| 34:13 |
Who gave him charge over the earth and who laid on him the whole world?
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| 34:14 |
If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,
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| 34:15 |
all flesh would perish together, and all mortals return to dust.
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| 34:16 |
"If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
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| 34:17 |
Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty,
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| 34:18 |
who says to a king, 'You scoundrel!' and to princes, 'You wicked men!';
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| 34:19 |
who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
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| 34:20 |
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
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| 34:21 |
"For his eyes are upon the ways of mortals, and he sees all their steps.
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| 34:22 |
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
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| 34:23 |
For he has not appointed a time for anyone to go before God in judgment.
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| 34:24 |
He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.
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| 34:25 |
Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
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| 34:26 |
He strikes them for their wickedness while others look on,
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| 34:27 |
because they turned aside from following him, and had no regard for any of his ways,
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| 34:28 |
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--
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| 34:29 |
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or an individual?--
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| 34:30 |
so that the godless should not reign, or those who ensnare the people.
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| 34:31 |
"For has anyone said to God, 'I have endured punishment; I will not offend any more;
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| 34:32 |
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
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| 34:33 |
Will he then pay back to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
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| 34:34 |
Those who have sense will say to me, and the wise who hear me will say,
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| 34:35 |
'Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.'
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| 34:36 |
Would that Job were tried to the limit, because his answers are those of the wicked.
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| 34:37 |
For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."
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