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