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Job 34

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¹Moreover Elihu answered and said, ²Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. ³For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food. ⁴Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right: ⁶Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I amwithout transgression. ⁷What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water, ⁸Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men? ⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God. ¹⁰Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. ¹¹For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways. ¹²Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice. ¹³Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world? ¹⁴If he set his heart upon himself, Ifhe gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; ¹⁵All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust. ¹⁶If nowthou hastunderstanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words. ¹⁷Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?— ¹⁸Himthat saith to a king, Thou art vile, Orto nobles, Ye arewicked; ¹⁹That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth 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, And the mighty are taken away without hand. ²¹For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings. ²²There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ²³For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment. ²⁴He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead. ²⁵Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. ²⁶He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others; ²⁷Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways: ²⁸So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man: ³⁰That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people. ³¹For hath any said unto God, I have bornechastisement, I will not offend any more: ³²That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more? ³³Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest. ³⁴Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me: ³⁵Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom. ³⁶Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men. ³⁷For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.