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34:1  Furthermore, Elihu answered and said,
34:2  Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
34:3  For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food.
34:4  Let us choose our judgment; let us know among ourselves what is good.
34:5  For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right.
34:6  In my judgment he was a liar, my arrow wound is grievous without my having committed a transgression.
34:7  What man is like Job, who drinks up the scorn like water?
34:8  Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.
34:9  For he said, It shall profit a man nothing that he should conform his will with God.
34:10  Therefore, hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
34:11  For he shall pay man according to his work and cause every man to find according to his ways.
34:12  Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
34:13  Who visited the earth for him? And who set the whole world in order?
34:14  If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath,
34:15  all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.
34:16  If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
34:17  Shall even he that hates judgment govern? And wilt thou condemn the Mighty One that is righteous?
34:18  Is it fit to say to the king, Thou art of Belial and to the princes, Ye are ungodly?
34:19  How much less to him who is not a respecter of the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
34:20  In a moment they shall die, and the peoples shall be troubled at midnight and shall pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
34:21  For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.
34:22  There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
34:23  For he will not lay upon man more than that which is just; that he should enter into judgment with God.
34:24  He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead.
34:25  Therefore, he shall cause their works to be notorious, when he shall overturn them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
34:26  He shall strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others
34:27  because thus they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways
34:28  so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
34:29  When he gives rest, who then can make trouble? If he hides his face, who then can behold him? This applies to a nation and the same to a man,
34:30  that the hypocrite not reign, lest the people be ensnared.
34:31  For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.
34:32  Teach me that which I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.
34:33  Will he perchance finish his work by thee; whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose, or by me? Speak what thou knowest.
34:34  The men of understanding will say as I say, and the wise man will hearken unto me.
34:35  Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without prudence.
34:36  My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end, that there may be answers against wicked men.
34:37  For he added rebellion unto his sin, he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.