rsv Job:34:12-37
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."
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