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Job 34 📜 📕 ↷
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
1 ELIU therefore pronouncing spake these words also:📜💬📚
2 Hear ye wise men my words: and ye learned harken to me:📜💬📚
3 For the ear proveth words, and the throat discerneth meats by the taste.📜💬📚
4 Let us choose us judgment, and among us let us see what is the better.📜💬📚
5 Because Job said: I am just, and God hath subverted my judgment.📜💬📚
6 For in judging me there is a lie: mine arrow is violent without any sin.📜💬📚
7 What man is there as is Job, that drinketh scorning as it were water?📜💬📚
8 What goeth with them that work iniquity, and walketh with impious men?📜💬📚
9 For he hath said: Man shall not please God although he run with him.📜💬📚
10 Therefore ye discrete men hear me, far from God be impiety, and iniquity from the Omnipotent.📜💬📚
11 For he will render a man his work, & according to the ways of every one he will recompense them.📜💬📚
12 For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will the Omnipotent subvert judgment.📜💬📚
13 What other hath he appointed over the earth or whom hath he set over the world, which he made?📜💬📚
14 If he direct his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto him.📜💬📚
15 All flesh shall fail together, and man shall return into ashes.📜💬📚
16 If then thou have understanding, hear that is said, and harken to the voice of my speech.📜💬📚
17 Can he that loveth not judgment, be healed? And how doest thou so far condemn him that is just?📜💬📚
18 That saith to the king, Apostata: that calleth dukes impious:📜💬📚
19 Who accepteth not the persons of Princes: nor hath known the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.📜💬📚
20 They shall suddenly die, and at mid-night peoples shall be troubled, & shall pass, & take away the violent without hand.📜💬📚
21 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.📜💬📚
22 There is not darkness, & there is not shadow of death, that they may be hid there which work iniquity.📜💬📚
23 For it is no more in man's power to come to God into judgment.📜💬📚
24 He shall destroy many, & innumerable, & shall make other to stand for them.📜💬📚
25 For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night, and they shall be destroyed.📜💬📚
26 As impious men he hath strucken them in the place of them that see.📜💬📚
27 Who as it were of purpose have revolted from him, & would not understand all his ways:📜💬📚
28 That they might cause the cry of the needy man to come to him, & he heard the voice of the poor.📜💬📚
29 For he granting peace, who is there that can condemn? After he shall hide his countenance, who is there that may behold him, both upon nations, and upon all men?📜💬📚
30 Who maketh a man that is an hypocrite reign for the sins of the people.📜💬📚
31 Therefore because I have spoken to God, thee also I will not prohibit.📜💬📚
32 If I have erred, teach thou me: If I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.📜💬📚
33 Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? For thou beganst to speak, and not I: but if thou know any better thing, speak.📜💬📚
34 Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wiseman hear me.📜💬📚
35 But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not discipline.📜💬📚
36 O my father, let Job be proved even to the end: cease not from the man of iniquity.📜💬📚
37 Who addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be restrained in the mean time among us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.📜💬📚
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