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- Moreover Elihu answered and said,
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- Hear my words, ye wise [men];
and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
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- For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
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- Let us choose for ourselves what is right;
let us know among ourselves what is good!
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- For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:
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- Should I lie against my right?
My wound is incurable without transgression.
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- What man is like Job?
he drinketh up scorning like water,
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- And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
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- For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
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- Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!
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- For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to [his] way.
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- Yea, surely, God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment.
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- Who hath entrusted to him the earth?
and who hath disposed the whole world?
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- If he only thought of himself, [and] gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,
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- All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.
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- If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words!
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- Should he that hateth right indeed govern?
and wilt thou condemn the All-just?
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- Shall one say to a king, Belial?
to nobles, Wicked?
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- [How then to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor?
for they are all the work of his hands.
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- In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away;
and the strong are taken away without hand.
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- For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps.
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- There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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- For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.
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- He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead;
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- Since he knoweth their actions;
and he overthroweth [them] in the night, and they are crushed.
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- He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,
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- Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;
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- So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
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- When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb?
and when he hideth [his] face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike;
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- That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.
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- For hath he said unto God, I bear [chastisement], I will not offend;
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- What I see not, teach thou me;
if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?
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- Shall he recompense according to thy mind?
for thou hast refused [his judgment]; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.
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- Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:
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- Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.
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- Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of [his] answers after the manner of evil men!
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- For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
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