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And Elihu answereth and saith:
Job 34:2
Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
Job 34:3
For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
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Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.
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For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
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Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow--without transgression.'
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Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
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And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
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For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
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Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:
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For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
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Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
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Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
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If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
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Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
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And if there is understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
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Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
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Who hath said to a king--`Worthless,' Unto princes--`Wicked?'
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That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.
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In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
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For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
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There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
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For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
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He breaketh the mighty--no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
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Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
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As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
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Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
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To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
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And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same.
Job 34:30
From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
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For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
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Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'
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By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused--That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
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Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
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Job--not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.
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My Father! let Job be tried--unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
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For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.