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| 34:1 |
And Elihu answereth and saith:
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| 34:2 |
Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
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| 34:3 |
For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
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| 34:4 |
Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
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| 34:5 |
For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
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| 34:6 |
Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow -- without transgression.'
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| 34:7 |
Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
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| 34:8 |
And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
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| 34:9 |
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
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| 34:10 |
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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| 34:11 |
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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| 34:12 |
Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
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| 34:13 |
Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
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| 34:14 |
If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
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| 34:15 |
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
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| 34:16 |
And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
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| 34:17 |
Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
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| 34:18 |
Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,' Unto princes -- `Wicked?'
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| 34:19 |
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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| 34:20 |
[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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| 34:21 |
For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
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| 34:22 |
There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
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| 34:23 |
For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
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| 34:24 |
He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
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| 34:25 |
Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
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| 34:26 |
As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
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| 34:27 |
Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
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| 34:28 |
To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
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| 34:29 |
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.
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| 34:30 |
From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
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| 34:31 |
For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
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| 34:32 |
Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'
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| 34:33 |
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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| 34:34 |
Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
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| 34:35 |
Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.
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| 34:36 |
My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
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| 34:37 |
For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.
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