📖 Job 34
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Elihu’s Second Speech Elihu answered:
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“Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.
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For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
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Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
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For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
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Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
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What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
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He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.
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For he says,‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
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God is Not Unjust“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.
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For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.
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Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
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Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?
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If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
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all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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God Is Impartial and Omniscient“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.
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Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely Righteous One,
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who says to a king,‘Worthless man’ and to nobles,‘Wicked men,’
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who 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?
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In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
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For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.
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There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
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For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.
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He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.
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Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
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He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,
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because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,
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so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.
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But 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,
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so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.
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Job Is Foolish to Rebel“Has anyone said to God,‘I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.
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Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
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Is 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.
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Men of understanding say to me– any wise man listening to me says–
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that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.
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But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.
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For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”