Book of Job, Chapter 34
Chapter 34 of Job
and give ear to me, you who know;
as the palate tastes food.
let us determine among ourselves what is good.
and God has taken away my right;
my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
who drinks up scoffing like water,
and walks with wicked men?
that he should take delight in God.’
far be it from God that he should do wickedness,
and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
and who laid on him[a] the whole world?
and gather to himself his breath,
and man would return to dust.
listen to what I say.
Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
and to nobles, ‘Wicked man’;
nor regards the rich more than the poor,
for they are all the work of his hands?
at midnight the people are shaken and pass away,
and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
and he sees all his steps.
where evildoers may hide themselves.
to go before God in judgment.
and sets others in their place.
he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
in the sight of men,
and had no regard for any of his ways,
and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
When he hides his face, who can behold him,
whether it be a nation or a man?—
that he should not ensnare the people.
‘I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;
if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
because you reject it?
For you must choose, and not I;
therefore declare what you know.[d]
and the wise man who hears me will say:
his words are without insight.’
because he answers like wicked men.
he claps his hands among us,
and multiplies his words against God.”FOOTNOTES
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