Thematic Bible
Job 34:1 (show verse)
Then Elihu answered and said:
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Job 34:2 (show verse)
"Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;
Job 34:3 (show verse)
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
Job 34:4 (show verse)
Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
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Job 34:5 (show verse)
For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
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Job 34:6 (show verse)
in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
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Job 34:7 (show verse)
What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
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Job 34:8 (show verse)
who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
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Job 34:9 (show verse)
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'
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Job 34:10 (show verse)
"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.
Job 34:11 (show verse)
For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
Job 34:12 (show verse)
Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Job 34:13 (show verse)
Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world?
Job 34:14 (show verse)
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
Job 34:15 (show verse)
all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
Job 34:16 (show verse)
"If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
Job 34:17 (show verse)
Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Job 34:18 (show verse)
who says to a king, 'Worthless one,' and to nobles, 'Wicked man,'
Job 34:19 (show verse)
who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
Job 34:20 (show verse)
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
Job 34:21 (show verse)
"For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
Job 34:22 (show verse)
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Job 34:23 (show verse)
For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Job 34:24 (show verse)
He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
Job 34:25 (show verse)
Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
Job 34:26 (show verse)
He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see,
Job 34:27 (show verse)
because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways,
Job 34:28 (show verse)
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--
Job 34:29 (show verse)
When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--
Job 34:30 (show verse)
that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.
Job 34:31 (show verse)
"For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
Job 34:32 (show verse)
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
Job 34:33 (show verse)
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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Job 34:34 (show verse)
Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:
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Job 34:35 (show verse)
'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'
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Job 34:36 (show verse)
Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
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Job 34:37 (show verse)
For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God."
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