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LEB JOB Chapter 34
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Elihu Asserts God’s Justice
34 Thus[fn] Elihu spoke up[fn] and said,
- 2 “Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know,
- 3 for the ear tests words, and the palate tastes food .[fn]
- 4 Let us choose justice for ourselves; let us determine among ourselves what is good—
- 5 for Job has said, ‘I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.
- 6 Should I lie concerning my justice? Though I am without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.’
- 7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
- 8 And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.
- 9 Indeed, he says, ‘A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.’
- 10 “Therefore, listen to me, people who have sense :[fn] far be it from God that he should commit wickedness[fn]
- and that Shaddai should do wrong .[fn]
- 11 Indeed, he will repay according to a human being’s deeds, and according to a man’s way he will let it happen to him.
- 12 What’s more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.
- 13 Who gave him charge over the earth? Or[fn] who laid on him the whole world?
- 14 If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,
- 15 all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.
- 16 “But[fn] if you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say .[fn]
- 17 Shall he who hates justice really govern? Or will you[fn] declare the Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?—
- 18 the one who says to a king, ‘You worthless man,’ to noblemen, ‘You wicked man,’
- 19 who shows no partiality to officials[fn] and who does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant ,[fn]
- for all of them are the work of his hands?
- 20 In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night the people are shaken, and they pass away,
- and they take away the mighty effortlessly .[fn]
- 21 “Indeed, his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.
- 22 There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.
- 23 Indeed, he has not yet appointed a time for man to go to God in the judgment.
- 24 He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place.
- 25 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night
- so that[fn] they are crushed.
- 26 He strikes them where the wicked stood ,[fn] where there are onlookers ,[fn]
- 27 because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways,
- 28 so that they cause the cry of distress from the helpless to come to him, and he hears the cry of distress from the needy,
- 29 but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides his face, and who can behold him?
- Yet[fn] he is over a nation and over a person alike,
- 30 so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare the people.
- 31 “Indeed, does anyone say to God, ‘I have endured chastisement; I will not act corruptly again;
- 32 teach me yourself what I cannot see ;[fn] if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it’?
- 33 According to your judgment ,[fn] must he repay it because you rejected this? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so[fn] declare what you know.
- 34 Those who have sense[fn] say to me, and the wise man hearing me says:
- 35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight.
- 36 Would that Job were tested up to the end because his answers are like those from men of mischief,
- 37 for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us,
- and he multiplies his words against God.’ ”
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