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\v 1 Moreover, Elihu continued to speak:
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\q
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\v 2 "Listen to my words, you wise men;
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\q hear me, you who have knowledge.
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\q
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\v 3 For the ear tries words
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\q as the palate tastes food.
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\q
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\v 4 Let us choose for ourselves what is just:
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\q let us discover among ourselves what is good.
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\q
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\v 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous,
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\q but God has taken away my rights.
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\q
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\v 6 Regardless of my rights, I am considered to be a liar.
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\q My wound is incurable, although I am without sin.'
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\q
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\v 7 What man is like Job,
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\q who drinks up mockery like water,
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\q
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\v 8 who goes around in the company of those who do evil,
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\q and who walks with wicked men?
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\q
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\v 9 For he has said, 'It is no use to a person
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\q to take pleasure in doing what God wants.'
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\q
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\v 10 So listen to me, you men of understanding:
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\q far be it from God that he should do wickedness;
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\q far be it from the Almighty that he should commit sin.
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\q
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\v 11 For he pays back a person's work;
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\q he makes every man come upon the reward of his own ways.
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\q
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\v 12 Indeed, God does nothing wicked,
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\q nor does the Almighty ever pervert justice.
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\q
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\v 13 Who put him in charge over the earth?
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\q Who put the whole world under him?
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\q
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\v 14 If he ever set his intentions only on himself,
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\q and if he ever gathered back to himself his spirit and his breath,
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\q
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\v 15 then all flesh would perish together;
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\q mankind would return to dust again.
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\q
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\v 16 If now you have understanding, listen to this;
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\q listen to the sound of my words.
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\q
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\v 17 Can one who hates justice govern?
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\q Will you condemn God, who is righteous and mighty?
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\q
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\v 18 God, who says to a king, 'You are vile,'
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\q or says to nobles, 'You are wicked'?
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\q
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\v 19 God, who does not show favoritism to leaders
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\q and does not acknowledge rich people more than poor,
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\q for they all are the work of his hands.
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\q
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\v 20 In a moment they will die;
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\q at midnight people will be shaken and will pass away;
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\q mighty people will be taken away, but not by human hands.
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\q
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\v 21 For God's eyes are upon a person's ways;
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\q he sees all his steps.
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\q
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\v 22 There is no darkness, no thick gloom
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\q where the doers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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\q
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\v 23 For God does not need to examine a person further;
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\q there is no need for any person to go before him in judgment.
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\q
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\v 24 He breaks mighty men into pieces for their ways that need no further investigation;
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\q he puts others in their places.
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\q
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\v 25 In this way he has knowledge of their deeds;
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\q he overthrows these people in the night; they are destroyed.
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\q
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\v 26 In the open sight of others, he kills them for their wicked deeds like criminals
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\q
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\v 27 because they turned away from following him
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\q and refused to acknowledge any of his ways.
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\q
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\v 28 In this way, they made the cry of poor people come to him;
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\q he heard the cry of afflicted people.
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\q
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\v 29 When he stays silent, who can condemn him?
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\q If he hides his face, who can perceive him?
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\q He rules over nation and individual alike,
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\q
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\v 30 so that a godless man may not rule,
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\q so that there may be no one to entrap people.
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\v 31 Suppose someone says to God,
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\q 'I am certainly guilty, but I will not sin any longer;
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\q
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\v 32 teach me what I cannot see;
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\q I have committed sin, but I will do it no longer.'
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\q
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\v 33 Do you think that God will punish that person's sin, since you dislike what God does?
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\q You must choose, not I.
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\q So say what it is that you know.
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\v 34 Men of understanding will say to me—
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\q indeed, every wise man who hears me will say,
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\q
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\v 35 'Job speaks without knowledge;
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\q his words are without wisdom.'
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\q
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\v 36 If only Job were put on trial in the smallest details of his case
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\q because of his talking like wicked men.
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\q
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\v 37 For he adds rebellion to his sin;
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\q he claps his hands in mockery in our midst;
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\q he piles up words against God."
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