nsb - Job:34

nsb@Job:34:1 @ ELIHU SPOKE MORE:

nsb@Job:34:2 @ »Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know.

nsb@Job:34:3 @ »For the ear tests words like the palate tastes food.

nsb@Job:34:4 @ »Let us choose what is right. Let us determine among ourselves what is good.

nsb@Job:34:5 @ »Job has said: I am innocent, and God has taken away my right.

nsb@Job:34:6 @ »In spite of being right I am counted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

nsb@Job:34:7 @ »Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water?

nsb@Job:34:8 @ »Who goes in company with evildoers and walks with the wicked?

nsb@Job:34:9 @ »He has said: It profits one nothing to take delight in God.

nsb@Job:34:10 @ »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.

nsb@Job:34:11 @ »According to their deeds he will repay them. According to their ways he will make it befall them.

nsb@Job:34:12 @ »Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

nsb@Job:34:13 @ »Who gave God authority over the earth? Who has laid on him the entire world?

nsb@Job:34:14 @ »If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

nsb@Job:34:15 @ »All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.

nsb@Job:34:16 @ »But if you understand, hear this; Listen to the sound of my words.

nsb@Job:34:17 @ »Shall one who hates justice rule? And will you condemn the righteous Mighty One?

nsb@Job:34:18 @ »Should anyone even say to a king: You good-for-nothing scoundrel! Or to nobles, you wicked people!

nsb@Job:34:19 @ »The one who is righteous and mighty does not grant special favors to princes or prefer important people to poor people because his hands made them all.

nsb@Job:34:20 @ »They die suddenly in the middle of the night. People have seizures and pass away. Mighty people are taken away but not by human hands.

nsb@Job:34:21 @ »God's eyes are on a person's ways. He sees all his steps.

nsb@Job:34:22 @ There is no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.

nsb@Job:34:23 @ »He does not have to set a time for a person in order to bring him to divine judgment.

nsb@Job:34:24 @ »He breaks mighty people into pieces without examining them and puts others in their places.

nsb@Job:34:25 @ »He knows what they do, so he overthrows them at night, and they are crushed.

nsb@Job:34:26 @ »In return for their evil, he strikes them in public.

nsb@Job:34:27 @ »This is because they turned away from following him. They did not consider any of his ways.

nsb@Job:34:28 @ »They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.

nsb@Job:34:29 @ »If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face, we would be helpless.

nsb@Job:34:30 @ »There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

nsb@Job:34:31 @ »Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

nsb@Job:34:32 @ »Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

nsb@Job:34:33 @ »Since you object to what God does, can you expect him to do what you want? The decision is yours, not mine. Tell us now what you think.

nsb@Job:34:34 @ »Any sensible person will agree; and the wise that hear me will say

nsb@Job:34:35 @ that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says make sense.

nsb@Job:34:36 @ »Think through everything that Job says. You will see that he talks like an evil man.

nsb@Job:34:37 @ »To his sins he adds rebellion and in front of us all he mocks God.