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Day 165 of 365

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Job 34-36

Job Chapter 34

¹Moreover Elihu answered, ²“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. ³For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. ⁴Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right. ⁶Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’ ⁷What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, ⁸who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men? ⁹For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’ ¹⁰“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. ¹¹For the work of a man he will give to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. ¹²Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice. ¹³Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world? ¹⁴If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, ¹⁵all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. ¹⁶“If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words. ¹⁷Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty, ¹⁸who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’? ¹⁹He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands. ²⁰In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. ²¹“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings. ²²There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ²³For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment. ²⁴He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place. ²⁵Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. ²⁶He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; ²⁷because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways, ²⁸so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike, ³⁰that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people. ³¹“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. ³²Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’? ³³Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. ³⁴Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me: ³⁵‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’ ³⁶I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men. ³⁷For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

1: Moreover Elihu answered,

2: “Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

3: For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

4: Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

5: For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.

6: Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

7: What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

8: who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

9: For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

10: “Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

11: For the work of a man he will give to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

12: Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

13: Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?

14: If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

15: all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

16: “If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

17: Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,

18: who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

19: He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor, for they all are the work of his hands.

20: In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

21: “For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

22: There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

23: For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

24: He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

25: Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

26: He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

27: because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

28: so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

29: When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

30: that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

31: “For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

32: Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

33: Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

34: Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

35: ‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

36: I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

37: For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

Job Chapter 35

¹Moreover Elihu answered, ²“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’ ³that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ ⁴I will answer you, and your companions with you. ⁵Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. ⁶If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ⁷If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand? ⁸Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man. ⁹“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, ¹¹who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’ ¹²There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it. ¹⁴How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him! ¹⁵But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance, ¹⁶therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

1: Moreover Elihu answered,

2: “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

3: that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

4: I will answer you, and your companions with you.

5: Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

6: If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

7: If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

8: Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

9: “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

10: But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

11: who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

12: There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

13: Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

14: How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

15: But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,

16: therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Job Chapter 36

¹Elihu also continued, and said, ²“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf. ³I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. ⁴For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you. ⁵“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding. ⁶He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted. ⁷He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted. ⁸If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions, ⁹then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. ¹⁰He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity. ¹¹If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. ¹²But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge. ¹³“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them. ¹⁴They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean. ¹⁵He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression. ¹⁶Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. ¹⁷“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you. ¹⁸Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. ¹⁹Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength? ²⁰Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place. ²¹Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. ²²Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? ²³Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’? ²⁴“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung. ²⁵All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off. ²⁶Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. ²⁷For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, ²⁸which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. ²⁹Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion? ³⁰Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. ³²He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. ³³Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.

1: Elihu also continued, and said,

2: “Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

3: I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4: For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5: “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

6: He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

7: He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

8: If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

9: then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

10: He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

11: If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

12: But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

13: “But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

14: They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

15: He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

16: Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

17: “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

18: Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

19: Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

20: Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

21: Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

22: Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

23: Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?

24: “Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.

25: All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.

26: Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

27: For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

28: which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

29: Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?

30: Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

31: For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

32: He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

33: Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.

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