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<div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Let us choose for us that which is right;</div><div class="po2">Let us know among ourselves what is good.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For Job hath said: ‘I am righteous,</div><div class="po2">And God hath taken away my right;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar;</div><div class="po2">My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>What man is like Job,</div><div class="po2">Who drinketh up scorning like water?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,</div><div class="po2">And walketh with wicked men.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For he hath said: ‘It profiteth a man nothing</div><div class="po2">That he should be in accord with God.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding:</div><div class="po2">Far be it from God, that He should do wickedness;</div><div class="po2">And from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the work of a man will He requite unto him,</div><div class="po2">And cause every man to find according to his ways.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly,</div><div class="po2">Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who gave Him a charge over the earth?</div><div class="po2">Or who hath disposed the whole world?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If He set His heart upon man,</div><div class="po2">If He gather unto Himself his spirit and his breath;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All flesh shall perish together,</div><div class="po2">And man shall return unto dust.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If now thou hast understanding, hear this;</div><div class="po2">Hearken to the voice of my words.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Shall even one that hateth right govern?</div><div class="po2">And wilt thou condemn Him that is just and mighty—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Is it fit to say to a king: ‘Thou art base’?</div><div class="po2">Or to nobles: ‘Ye are wicked’?—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>That respecteth not the persons of princes,</div><div class="po2">Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor?</div><div class="po2">For they all are the work of His hands.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In a moment they die, even at midnight;</div><div class="po2">The people are shaken and pass away,</div><div class="po2">And the mighty are taken away without hand.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For His eyes are upon the ways of a man,</div><div class="po2">And He seeth all his goings.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>There is no darkness, nor shadow of death,</div><div class="po2">Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For He doth not appoint a time unto any man,</div><div class="po2">When he should go before God in judgment.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquisition,</div><div class="po2">And setteth others in their stead.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore He taketh knowledge of their works;</div><div class="po2">And He overturneth them in the night, so that they are crushed.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He striketh them as wicked men</div><div class="po2">In the open sight of others;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Because they turned aside from following Him,</div><div class="po2">And would not have regard to any of His ways;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him,</div><div class="po2">And He heareth the cry of the afflicted.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn?</div><div class="po2">And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him?</div><div class="po2">Whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>That the godless man reign not,</div><div class="po2">That there be none to ensnare the people.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For hath any said unto God:</div><div class="po2">‘I have borne chastisement, though I offend not;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>That which I see not teach Thou me;</div><div class="po2">If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Shall His recompense be as thou wilt? For thou loathest it,</div><div class="po2">So that thou must choose, and not I;</div><div class="po2">Therefore speak what thou knowest.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Men of understanding will say unto me,</div><div class="po2">Yea, every wise man that heareth me:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>‘Job speaketh without knowledge,</div><div class="po2">And his words are without discernment.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Would that Job were tried unto the end,</div><div class="po2">Because of his answering like wicked men.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/34-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For he addeth rebellion unto his sin,</div><div class="po2">He clappeth his hands among us,</div><div class="po2">And multiplieth his words against God.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/33.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 33"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 33" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/35.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 35"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 35" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/job/34-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>