Thematic Bible
Job 34:1 (show verse)
Elihu answered:
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Job 34:2 (show verse)
"Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.
Job 34:3 (show verse)
For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
Job 34:4 (show verse)
Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
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Job 34:5 (show verse)
For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
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Job 34:6 (show verse)
Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.'
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Job 34:7 (show verse)
What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
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Job 34:8 (show verse)
He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.
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Job 34:9 (show verse)
For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'
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Job 34:10 (show verse)
"Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.
Job 34:11 (show verse)
For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.
Job 34:12 (show verse)
Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
Job 34:13 (show verse)
Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?
Job 34:14 (show verse)
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
Job 34:15 (show verse)
all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
Job 34:16 (show verse)
"If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.
Job 34:17 (show verse)
Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely righteous One,
Job 34:18 (show verse)
who says to a king, 'Worthless man' and to nobles, 'Wicked men,'
Job 34:19 (show verse)
who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?
Job 34:20 (show verse)
In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
Job 34:21 (show verse)
For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person's steps.
Job 34:22 (show verse)
There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
Job 34:23 (show verse)
For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.
Job 34:24 (show verse)
He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.
Job 34:25 (show verse)
Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
Job 34:26 (show verse)
He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,
Job 34:27 (show verse)
because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,
Job 34:28 (show verse)
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.
Job 34:29 (show verse)
But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
Job 34:30 (show verse)
so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.
Job 34:31 (show verse)
"Has anyone said to God, 'I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.
Job 34:32 (show verse)
Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.'
Job 34:33 (show verse)
Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.
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Job 34:34 (show verse)
Men of understanding say to me -- any wise man listening to me says --
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Job 34:35 (show verse)
that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.
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Job 34:36 (show verse)
But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.
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Job 34:37 (show verse)
For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God."
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