B.
His second correction and refutation of Job
34:1-37
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:1
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Then Elihu continued and said,
Job 34
:2
34:2
Hear my words, you wise men;
And you who know, give ear to me.
Job 34
:3
34:3
For the
aear tries words
As the palate tastes food.
Job 34
:4
34:4
Let us choose for ourselves what is right;
Let us know among ourselves what is
agood.
Job 34
:5
34:5
For Job has said, I am righteous,
And God has
1taken away my
aright;
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:6
34:6
Should I lie against my right?
My arrow wound is incurable,
though I am without transgression.
Job 34
:7
34:7
What man is like Job,
Who drinks up scoffing like water,
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:8
34:8
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity
And walks with wicked men?
Job 34
:9
34:9
For he has said, It does not
aprofit a man
To delight himself in God.
Job 34
:10
34:10
Therefore, you men of understanding, hear me:
Far be it from God that He would do evil,
And from the Almighty that He would commit iniquity.
Job 34
:11
34:11
For He will
arender a man’s work to him
And will cause a man to find that which is according to his own way.
Job 34
:12
34:12
Indeed in all certainty God will not do evil,
And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Job 34
:13
34:13
Who has
ever put the
aearth in His charge?
Or who has
ever set
in order the whole world?
Job 34
:14
34:14
If He were to consider Himself
only,
He would gather back to Himself His
aspirit and His breath;
Job 34
:15
34:15
All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to
adust.
Job 34
:16
34:16
If then
you have understanding, hear this;
Give ear to the voice of my words.
Job 34
:17
34:17
Shall one who hates justice govern?
And will you condemn the just
and mighty One,
Job 34
:18
34:18
He who says to a king, You worthless one!
And to nobles, You wicked one!
Job 34
:19
34:19
He who does not
arespect the persons of princes,
Nor regard the rich man more than the poor,
For they are all the work of His hands?
Job 34
:20
34:20
In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night
The people are shaken, and they pass away;
And the mighty are taken away,
but by no
human hand.
Job 34
:21
34:21
For His
aeyes are upon the ways of a man,
And He sees all his steps.
Job 34
:22
34:22
There is no darkness and no shadow of death
Where the workers of iniquity may
ahide themselves.
Job 34
:23
34:23
For He does not
need to consider a man further,
That he should go to God in litigation.
Job 34
:24
34:24
He breaks mighty men in pieces without inquiry
And puts others in their stead.
Job 34
:25
34:25
Hence He knows their actions,
And He overturns
them in the night so that they are crushed.
Job 34
:26
34:26
He strikes them as He would evil men,
In a place where
all can see;
Job 34
:27
34:27
Because they turned aside from following after Him
And would not regard any of His ways,
Job 34
:28
34:28
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job 34
:29
34:29
When He is silent, who can condemn
Him?
When He hides His face, who can behold Him?
He does so toward a nation and toward a man alike,
Job 34
:30
34:30
That no profane man would reign, that there would be no snares for the people.
Job 34
:31
34:31
For has anyone
ever said to God,
I have borne
chastisement; I will offend no more;
Job 34
:32
34:32
What I do not see teach me;
If I have committed iniquity, I will do it no more?
Job 34
:33
34:33
Should He recompense to fit you, since you have rejected
it?
For you must choose, and not I.
So speak what you know.
Job 34
:34
34:34
Men of understanding will say to me,
As well as the man of wisdom who hears me,
Job 34
:35
34:35
Job has spoken without knowledge,
And his words are without insight.
Job 34
:36
34:36
I wish that Job were tried to the limit
Because of his answering like evil men.
Job 34
:37
34:37
For he adds
1rebellion to his sin;
Among us he
2claps his hands And multiplies his words against God.
