# Job 34 đ
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## đ Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
## Elihuâs Second Speech
[[#Verse 01.]]Â Elihu answered:
[[#Verse 02.]]Â âListen to my words, you wise men;
hear me, you learned men.
[[#Verse 03.]] For the ear assesses words
as the mouth tastes food.
[[#Verse 04.]] Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right;
let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
[[#Verse 05.]]Â For Job says, âI am innocent,
but God turns away my right.
[[#Verse 06.]]Â Concerning my right, should I lie?
My wound is incurable,
although I am without transgression.â
[[#Verse 07.]]Â Who is there like Job,
who drinks derision like water?
[[#Verse 08.]] He goes about in company with evildoers,
he goes along with wicked men.
[[#Verse 09.]]Â For he says, âIt does not profit a man
when he makes his delight with God.â
## God is Not Unjust
[[#Verse 10.]]Â âTherefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from God to do wickedness,
from the Almighty to do evil.
[[#Verse 11.]]Â For he repays a person for his work,
and according to the conduct of a person,
he causes the consequences to find him.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly,
and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
[[#Verse 13.]] Who entrusted to him the earth?
And who put him over the whole world?
[[#Verse 14.]] If God were to set his heart on it,
and gather in his spirit and his breath,
[[#Verse 15.]]Â all flesh would perish together
and human beings would return to dust.
## God Is Impartial and Omniscient
[[#Verse 16.]] âIf you have understanding, listen to this,
hear what I have to say.
[[#Verse 17.]]Â Do you really think
that one who hates justice can govern?
And will you declare guilty
the supremely Righteous One,
[[#Verse 18.]] who says to a king, âWorthless man,â
and to nobles, âWicked men,â
[[#Verse 19.]]Â who shows no partiality to princes,
and does not take note of the rich more than the poor,
because all of them are the work of his hands?
[[#Verse 20.]]Â In a moment they die, in the middle of the night,
people are shaken and they pass away.
The mighty are removed effortlessly.
[[#Verse 21.]]Â For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,
he observes all a personâs steps.
[[#Verse 22.]]Â There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,
where evildoers can hide themselves.
[[#Verse 23.]]Â For he does not still consider a person,
that he should come before God in judgment.
[[#Verse 24.]]Â He shatters the great without inquiry,
and sets up others in their place.
[[#Verse 25.]]Â Therefore, he knows their deeds,
he overthrows them in the night
and they are crushed.
[[#Verse 26.]]Â He strikes them for their wickedness,
in a place where people can see,
[[#Verse 27.]]Â because they have turned away from following him,
and have not understood any of his ways,
[[#Verse 28.]] so that they caused the cry of the poor
to come before him,
so that he hears the cry of the needy.
[[#Verse 29.]] But if God is quiet, who can condemn him?
If he hides his face, then who can see him?
Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
[[#Verse 30.]]Â so that the godless man should not rule,
and not lay snares for the people.
## Job Is Foolish to Rebel
[[#Verse 31.]]Â âHas anyone said to God,
âI have endured chastisement,
but I will not act wrongly any more;
[[#Verse 32.]]Â teach me what I cannot see;
if I have done evil, I will do so no moreâ?
[[#Verse 33.]] Is it your opinion that God should recompense it,
because you reject this?
But you must choose, and not I,
so tell us what you know.
[[#Verse 34.]]Â Men of understanding say to meâ
any wise man listening to me saysâ
[[#Verse 35.]] that Job speaks without knowledge
and his words are without understanding.
[[#Verse 36.]] But Job will be tested to the end,
because his answers are like those of wicked men.
[[#Verse 37.]] For he adds transgression to his sin;
in our midst he claps his hands,
and multiplies his words against God.â
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- "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation."
- "Speak truth even when itâs unpopular."
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- What do we learn about people?
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