Job:34

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* And Elihu answered and said , * Hear my words , wise men ; and give ear to me , you who have knowledge ; * For the ear tries words , [as ] the palate tastes food . * Let us choose for ourselves what is right ; let us know among ourselves what [is ] good . * For Job has said , I am righteous ; and God has taken away my right ; * should I lie against my right ? My wound cannot be cured ; [I am ] without rebellion . * What man [is ] like Job , [who ] drinks up scorning like water ; * who goes in company with the workers of iniquity , and walks with wicked men ? * For he has said , It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God . * Therefore listen to me , O man of heart ; far be it from God to commit iniquity ; and from the Almighty , to do wrong . * For He repays man 's work , and causes him to find according to [his ] ways . * Yes , surely God will not do wickedly , neither will the Almighty pervert justice . * Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him ? Or who has set the whole world in order ? * If He sets His heart on man , [if ] He gathers to Himself his spirit and his breath , * all flesh shall perish together , and man shall turn again to dust . * If now [you have ] understanding , hear this ; listen to the sound of my words . * Shall one who hates right govern ? And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty ? * Who says to a king , O worthless one ; and to nobles , O evil one ? * [How much less to Him who ] does not lift up the face of rulers , nor regard the rich before the poor ? For all of them [are ] the work of His hands . * In a moment they die , and a people are shaken at midnight and pass away ; and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand . * For His eyes [are ] on the ways of man , and He sees all his steps . * There is no darkness , nor shadow of death to hide there the workers of iniquity . * For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment . * He shall break in pieces mighty men without number , and set others in their place . * Therefore He knows their works , and He overturns in the night , so that they are destroyed . * He strikes them for evil deeds in the place of the watchers , * because thus they turned from following Him , and they did not consider all His ways ; * [so as ] to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him , for He hears the cry of the afflicted . * And He gives quietness , who then can condemn ? And when He hides [His ] face , who can behold Him ? And [it may be ] against a nation and a man together ; * from the reigning of ungodly men , from [being ] snares for the people . * For has any said to God , I have taken away ; I will not pervert ? * Besides what I see , You teach me ; if I have done iniquity , I will do it no more . * Must He repay because you rejected [it ]? For you must choose , and not I ; therefore speak what you know . * Men of understanding will say to me , and a wise man who hears me [will say ], * Job has spoken without knowledge , and his words [were ] without wisdom . * Would that Job may be tried to the end because [his ] answers [are ] like men of iniquity . * For he adds rebellion to his sins ; he claps [his ] hands among us , and multiplies his words against God .

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