Job:32-37
rsv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
rsv@Job:32:2 @ Then Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;
rsv@Job:32:3 @ he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
rsv@Job:32:4 @ Now Eli'hu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.
rsv@Job:32:5 @ And when Eli'hu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he became angry.
rsv@Job:32:6 @ And Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite answered: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
rsv@Job:32:7 @ I said, `said, "Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'
rsv@Job:32:8 @ But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
rsv@Job:32:9 @ It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.
rsv@Job:32:10 @ Therefore I say, `isten to me; let me also declare my opinion.'
rsv@Job:32:11 @ "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.
rsv@Job:32:12 @ I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none that confuted Job, or that answered his words, among you.
rsv@Job:32:13 @ Beware lest you say, `ware lest you say, "We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man.'
rsv@Job:32:14 @ He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
rsv@Job:32:15 @ "They are discomfited, they answer no more; they have not a word to say.
rsv@Job:32:16 @ And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?
rsv@Job:32:17 @ I also will give my answer; I also will declare my opinion.
rsv@Job:32:18 @ For I am full of words, the spirit within me constrains me.
rsv@Job:32:19 @ Behold, my heart is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.
rsv@Job:32:20 @ I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
rsv@Job:32:21 @ I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.
rsv@Job:32:22 @ For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.
rsv@Job:33:1 @ "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.
rsv@Job:33:2 @ Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.
rsv@Job:33:3 @ My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
rsv@Job:33:4 @ The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
rsv@Job:33:5 @ Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
rsv@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.
rsv@Job:33:7 @ Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
rsv@Job:33:8 @ "Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the sound of your words.
rsv@Job:33:9 @ You say, `u say, "I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
rsv@Job:33:10 @ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
rsv@Job:33:11 @ he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'
rsv@Job:33:12 @ "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man.
rsv@Job:33:13 @ Why do you contend against him, saying, `He will answer none of my words'?
rsv@Job:33:14 @ For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
rsv@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,
rsv@Job:33:16 @ then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings,
rsv@Job:33:17 @ that he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from man;
rsv@Job:33:18 @ he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
rsv@Job:33:19 @ "Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;
rsv@Job:33:20 @ so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.
rsv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and his bones which were not seen stick out.
rsv@Job:33:22 @ His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.
rsv@Job:33:23 @ If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him;
rsv@Job:33:24 @ and he is gracious to him, and says, `eliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom;
rsv@Job:33:25 @ let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';
rsv@Job:33:26 @ then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,
rsv@Job:33:27 @ and he sings before men, and says: `d perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.
rsv@Job:33:28 @ He has redeemed my soul from going down into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.'
rsv@Job:33:29 @ "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,
rsv@Job:33:30 @ to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.
rsv@Job:33:31 @ Give heed, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
rsv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
rsv@Job:33:33 @ If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
rsv@Job:34:1 @ Then Eli'hu said:
rsv@Job:34:2 @ "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
rsv@Job:34:3 @ for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
rsv@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.
rsv@Job:34:5 @ For Job has said, `r Job has said, "I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
rsv@Job:34:6 @ in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
rsv@Job:34:7 @ What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
rsv@Job:34:8 @ who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
rsv@Job:34:9 @ For he has said, `r he has said, "It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'
rsv@Job:34:10 @ "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
rsv@Job:34:11 @ For according to the work of a man he will requite him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
rsv@Job:34:12 @ Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
rsv@Job:34:13 @ Who gave him charge over the earth and who laid on him the whole world?
rsv@Job:34:14 @ If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,
rsv@Job:34:15 @ all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
rsv@Job:34:16 @ "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
rsv@Job:34:17 @ Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
rsv@Job:34:18 @ who says to a king, `o says to a king, "Worthless one,' and to nobles, `d to nobles, "Wicked man';
rsv@Job:34:19 @ who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
rsv@Job:34:20 @ In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
rsv@Job:34:21 @ "For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
rsv@Job:34:22 @ There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
rsv@Job:34:23 @ For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.
rsv@Job:34:24 @ He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.
rsv@Job:34:25 @ Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
rsv@Job:34:26 @ He strikes them for their wickedness in the sight of men,
rsv@Job:34:27 @ because they turned aside from following him, and had no regard for any of his ways,
rsv@Job:34:28 @ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--
rsv@Job:34:29 @ When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--
rsv@Job:34:30 @ that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
rsv@Job:34:31 @ "For has any one said to God, ` have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;
rsv@Job:34:32 @ teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
rsv@Job:34:33 @ Will he then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
rsv@Job:34:34 @ Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:
rsv@Job:34:35 @ `Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.'
rsv@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
rsv@Job:34:37 @ For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."
rsv@Job:35:1 @ And Eli'hu said:
rsv@Job:35:2 @ "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ` you say, "It is my right before God,'
rsv@Job:35:3 @ that you ask, `at you ask, "What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
rsv@Job:35:4 @ I will answer you and your friends with you.
rsv@Job:35:5 @ Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
rsv@Job:35:6 @ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
rsv@Job:35:7 @ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
rsv@Job:35:8 @ Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
rsv@Job:35:9 @ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
rsv@Job:35:10 @ But none says, `t none says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
rsv@Job:35:11 @ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
rsv@Job:35:12 @ There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
rsv@Job:35:13 @ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
rsv@Job:35:14 @ How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
rsv@Job:35:15 @ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
rsv@Job:35:16 @ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."
rsv@Job:36:1 @ And Eli'hu continued, and said:
rsv@Job:36:2 @ "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
rsv@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
rsv@Job:36:4 @ For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
rsv@Job:36:5 @ "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
rsv@Job:36:6 @ He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
rsv@Job:36:7 @ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
rsv@Job:36:8 @ And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
rsv@Job:36:9 @ then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
rsv@Job:36:10 @ He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
rsv@Job:36:11 @ If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
rsv@Job:36:12 @ But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
rsv@Job:36:13 @ "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
rsv@Job:36:14 @ They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.
rsv@Job:36:15 @ He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
rsv@Job:36:16 @ He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
rsv@Job:36:17 @ "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
rsv@Job:36:18 @ Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
rsv@Job:36:19 @ Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
rsv@Job:36:20 @ Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
rsv@Job:36:21 @ Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
rsv@Job:36:22 @ Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
rsv@Job:36:23 @ Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ` who can say, "Thou hast done wrong'?
rsv@Job:36:24 @ "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
rsv@Job:36:25 @ All men have looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
rsv@Job:36:26 @ Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
rsv@Job:36:27 @ For he draws up the drops of water, he distils his mist in rain
rsv@Job:36:28 @ which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.
rsv@Job:36:29 @ Can any one understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
rsv@Job:36:30 @ Behold, he scatters his lightning about him, and covers the roots of the sea.
rsv@Job:36:31 @ For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
rsv@Job:36:32 @ He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
rsv@Job:36:33 @ Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.
rsv@Job:37:1 @ "At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.
rsv@Job:37:2 @ Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
rsv@Job:37:3 @ Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
rsv@Job:37:4 @ After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
rsv@Job:37:5 @ God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.
rsv@Job:37:6 @ For to the snow he says, `th'; and to the shower and the rain, "Be strong.'
rsv@Job:37:7 @ He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.
rsv@Job:37:8 @ Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
rsv@Job:37:9 @ From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
rsv@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
rsv@Job:37:11 @ He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
rsv@Job:37:12 @ They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.
rsv@Job:37:13 @ Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.
rsv@Job:37:14 @ "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
rsv@Job:37:15 @ Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
rsv@Job:37:16 @ Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
rsv@Job:37:17 @ you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
rsv@Job:37:18 @ Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
rsv@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
rsv@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
rsv@Job:37:21 @ "And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
rsv@Job:37:22 @ Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with terrible majesty.
rsv@Job:37:23 @ The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
rsv@Job:37:24 @ Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."
rsv@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
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