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Then Elihu answered and said: |
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"Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know; |
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for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food. |
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Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good. |
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For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right; |
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in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.' |
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What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water, |
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who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men? |
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For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.' |
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"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. |
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For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him. |
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Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice. |
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Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world? |
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If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, |
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all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. |
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"If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say. |
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Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty, |
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who says to a king, 'Worthless one,' and to nobles, 'Wicked man,' |
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who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands? |
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In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand. |
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"For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. |
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There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves. |
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For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment. |
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He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place. |
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Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed. |
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He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see, |
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because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways, |
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so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted- |
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When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?- |
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that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people. |
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"For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more; |
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teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'? |
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Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know. |
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Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say: |
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'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.' |
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Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men. |
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For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God." |
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