Thematic Bible

Job 34:1

ELIHU SPOKE MORE:
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Job 34:2

Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know.

Job 34:3

For the ear tests words like the palate tastes food.

Job 34:4

Let us choose what is right. Let us determine among ourselves what is good.
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Job 34:5

Job has said: 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right.
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Job 34:6

In spite of being right I am counted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
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Job 34:7

Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water?
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Job 34:8

Who goes in company with evildoers and walks with the wicked?
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Job 34:9

He has said: 'It profits one nothing to take delight in God.'
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Job 34:10

Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Job 34:11

According to their deeds he will repay them. According to their ways he will make it befall them.

Job 34:12

Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

Job 34:13

Who gave God authority over the earth? Who has laid on him the entire world?

Job 34:14

If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.

Job 34:16

But if you understand, hear this; Listen to the sound of my words.

Job 34:17

Shall one who hates justice rule? And will you condemn the righteous Mighty One?

Job 34:18

Should anyone even say to a king: You good-for-nothing scoundrel! Or to nobles, you wicked people!

Job 34:19

The one who is righteous and mighty does not grant special favors to princes or prefer important people to poor people because his hands made them all.

Job 34:20

They die suddenly in the middle of the night. People have seizures and pass away. Mighty people are taken away but not by human hands.

Job 34:21

God's eyes are on a person's ways. He sees all his steps.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.

Job 34:23

He does not have to set a time for a person in order to bring him to divine judgment.

Job 34:24

He breaks mighty people into pieces without examining them and puts others in their places.

Job 34:25

He knows what they do, so he overthrows them at night, and they are crushed.

Job 34:26

In return for their evil, he strikes them in public.

Job 34:27

This is because they turned away from following him. They did not consider any of his ways.

Job 34:28

They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.

Job 34:29

If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face (refused to assist), we would be helpless.

Job 34:30

There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

Job 34:31

Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

Job 34:32

Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

Job 34:33

Since you object to what God does, can you expect him to do what you want? The decision is yours, not mine. Tell us now what you think.
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Job 34:34

Any sensible person will agree; and the wise that hear me will say
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Job 34:35

that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says make sense.
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Job 34:36

Think through everything that Job says. You will see that he talks like an evil man.
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Job 34:37

To his sins he adds rebellion and in front of us all he mocks God.
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