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Job 34

¹You men are so wise, so clever; listen now to what I am saying.

³You know good food when you taste it, but not wise words when you hear them.

⁴It is up to us to decide the case.

⁵Job claims that he is innocent, that God refuses to give him justice.

⁶He asks, "How could I lie and say I am wrong? I am fatally wounded, but I am sinless."

⁷Have you ever seen anyone like this man Job? He never shows respect for God.

⁸He likes the company of evil people and goes around with sinners.

⁹He says that it never does any good to try to follow God's will.

¹⁰Listen to me, you men who understand! Will Almighty God do what is wrong?

¹¹He rewards people for what they do and treats them as they deserve.

¹²Almighty God does not do evil; he is never unjust to anyone.

¹³Did God get his power from someone else? Did someone put him in charge of the world?

¹⁴If God took back the breath of life,

¹⁵then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

¹⁶Now listen to me, if you are wise.

¹⁷Are you condemning the righteous God? Do you think that he hates justice?

¹⁸God condemns kings and rulers when they are worthless or wicked.

¹⁹He does not take the side of rulers nor favor the rich over the poor, for he created everyone.

²⁰We may suddenly die at night. God strikes us down and we perish; he kills the mighty with no effort at all.

²¹He watches every step we take.

²²There is no darkness dark enough to hide a sinner from God.

²³God does not need to set a time for us to go and be judged by him.

²⁴He does not need an investigation to remove leaders and replace them with others.

²⁵Because he knows what they do; he overthrows them and crushes them by night.

²⁶He punishes sinners where all can see it,

²⁷because they have stopped following him and ignored all his commands.

²⁸They forced the poor to cry out to God, and he heard their calls for help.

²⁹If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face, we would be helpless.

³⁰There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

³¹Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?

³²Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

³³Since you object to what God does, can you expect him to do what you want? The decision is yours, not mine; tell us now what you think.

³⁴Any sensible person will surely agree; and the wise who hear me will say

³⁵that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says makes sense.

³⁶Think through everything that Job says; you will see that he talks like an evil man.

³⁷To his sins he adds rebellion; in front of us all he mocks God.