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1 Then Elihu continued, saying:

2 Do you think it is just when you say,

“I am righteous before God”?

3 For you ask, “What does it profit You,

and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin? ”

4 I will answer you

and your friends with you.

5 Look at the heavens and see;

gaze at the clouds high above you.

6 If you sin, how does it affect God?

If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him,

or what does He receive from your hand?

8 Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,

and your righteousness another human being.

9 People cry out because of severe oppression;

they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.

10 But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,

who provides us with songs in the night,

11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth

and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky? ”

12 There they cry out, but He does not answer,

because of the pride of evil men.

13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,

and the Almighty does not take note of it —

14 how much less whenyou complain

that you do not see Him,

that your caseis before Him

and you are waitingfor Him.

15 But now, because God’s anger does not punish

and He does not pay attention to transgression,

16 Job opens his mouth in vain

and multiplies words without knowledge.

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1 Then Elihu continued, saying:

2 Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you,

for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.

3 I will get my knowledge from a distant place

and ascribe justice to my Maker.

4 For my arguments are without flaw;

one who has perfect knowledge is with you.

5 Yes, God is mighty, but He despises no one;

He understands all things.

6 He does not keep the wicked alive,

but He gives justice to the afflicted.

7 He does not remove His gaze from the righteous,

but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,

and they are exalted.

8 If people are bound with chains

and trapped by the cords of affliction,

9 God tells them what they have done

and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

10 He opens their earsto correction

and insists they repent from iniquity.

11 If they serve Him obediently,

they will end their days in prosperity

and their years in happiness.

12 But if they do not obey,

they will cross the river of death

and die without knowledge.

13 Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;

even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

14 They die in their youth;

their life ends among male cult prostitutes.

15 God rescues the afflicted by their affliction;

He instructs them by their torment.

16 Indeed, He lured you from the jawsof distress

to a spacious and unconfined place.

Your table was spread with choice food.

17 Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked;

judgment and justice have seized you.

18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches;

do not let a large ransomlead you astray.

19 Can your wealthor all your physical exertion

keep you from distress?

20 Do not long for the night

when nations will disappear from their places.

21 Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,

for that is why you have been tested byaffliction.

22 Look, God shows Himself exalted by His power.

Who is a teacher like Him?

23 Who has appointed His way for Him,

and who has declared, “You have done wrong”?

24 Remember that you should praise His work,

which people have sung about.

25 All mankind has seen it;

people have looked at it from a distance.

26 Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge;

the number of His years cannot be counted.

27 For He makes waterdrops evaporate;

they distill the rain into itsmist,

28 which the clouds pour out

and shower abundantly on mankind.

29 Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out

or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

30 See how He spreads His lightningaround Him

and covers the depths of the sea.

31 For He judges the nations with these;

He gives food in abundance.

32 He covers His hands with lightning

and commands it to hit its mark.

33 Thethunder declares His presence;

the cattle also, the approaching storm.

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1 My heartpounds at this

and leaps from my chest.

2 Just listen to His thunderous voice

and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

3 He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;

His lightning to the endsof the earth.

4 Then there comes a roaring sound;

God thunderswith His majestic voice.

He does not restrain the lightning

when His rumbling voice is heard.

5 God thunders marvelously with His voice;

He does great things that we cannot comprehend.

6 For He says to the snow,“Fall to the earth,”

and the torrential rains, His mighty torrential rains,

7 serve as His sign to all mankind,

so that all men may know His work.

8 The wild animals enter their lairs

and stay in their dens.

9 The windstorm comes from its chamber,

and the cold from the driving north winds.

10 Ice is formed by the breath of God,

and watery expanses are frozen.

11 He saturates clouds with moisture;

He scatters His lightning through them.

12 They swirl about,

turning round and round at His direction,

accomplishing everything He commands them

over the surface of the inhabited world.

13 He causes this to happen for punishment,

for His land, or for His faithful love.

14 Listen to this, Job.

Stop and consider God’s wonders.

15 Do you know how God directs His clouds

or makes their lightning flash?

16 Do you understand how the clouds float,

those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?

17 You whose clothes get hot

when the south wind brings calm to the land,

18 can you help God spread out the skies

as hard as a cast metal mirror?

19 Teach us what we should say to Him;

we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

20 Should He be told that I want to speak?

Can a man speak when he is confused?

21 Now men cannot even look at the sun

when it is in the skies,

after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

22 Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow;

awesomemajesty surrounds Him.

23 The Almighty — we cannot reach Him —

He is exalted in power!

He will not oppress justice and abundant righteousness,

24 Therefore, men fear Him.

He does not look favorably on any who are wisein heart.

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The Lord Speaks

1 Then theLordanswered Job from the whirlwind.He said:

2 Who is this who obscures My counsel

with ignorant words?

3 Get ready to answer Me like a man;

when I questionyou, you will inform Me.

4 Where were you when I establishedthe earth?

Tell Me, if you haveunderstanding.

5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 What supports its foundations?

Or who laid its cornerstone

7 while the morning stars sang together

and all the sons of Godshouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment

and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I determined its boundaries

and put its bars and doors in place,

11 when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;

your proud waves stop here”?

12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning

or assigned the dawn its place,

13 so it may seize the edges of the earth

and shake the wicked out of it?

14 The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;

its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

15 Lightis withheld from the wicked,

and the arm raised in violence is broken.

16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea

or walked in the depths of the oceans?

17 Have the gatesof death been revealed to you?

Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?

Tell Me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the road to the home of light?

Do you know where darkness lives,

20 so you can lead it back to its border?

Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

21 Don’t you know? You were already born;

you have lived so long!

22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?

Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,

for the day of warfare and battle?

24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain

or clears the way for lightning,

26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land,

on a desert with no human life,

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland

and cause the grass to sprout?

28 Does the rain have a father?

Who fathered the drops of dew?

29 Whose womb did the ice come from?

Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

30 when water becomes as hard as stone,

and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades

or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring out the constellationsin their season

and lead the Bearand her cubs?

33 Do you know the lawsof heaven?

Can you impose itsauthority on earth?

34 Can you commandthe clouds

so that a flood of water covers you?

35 Can you send out lightningbolts, and they go?

Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

36 Who put wisdomin the heart

or gave the mind understanding?

37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?

Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

38 when the dust hardens like cast metal

and the clods of dirt stick together?

39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness

or satisfy the appetite of young lions

40 when they crouch in their dens

and lie in wait within their lairs?

41 Who provides the raven’s food

when its young cry out to God

and wander about for lack of food?

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1 Do you know when mountain goats give birth?

Have you watched the deer in labor?

2 Can you count the months they are pregnant

so you can know the time they give birth?

3 They crouch down to give birth to their young;

they deliver their newborn.

4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.

They leave and do not return.

5 Who set the wild donkey free?

Who released the swift donkey from its harness?

6 I made the wildernessits home,

and the saltywasteland its dwelling.

7 It scoffs at the noise of the village

and never hears the shouts of a driver.

8 It roams the mountains for its pastureland,

searching for anything green.

9 Would the wild ox be willing to serve you?

Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

10 Can you hold the wild oxto a furrow by its harness?

Will it plow the valleys behind you?

11 Can you depend on it because its strength is great?

Would you leave it to do your hard work?

12 Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain

and bring it to your threshing floor?

13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,

but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

14 She abandons her eggs on the ground

and lets them be warmed in the sand.

15 She forgets that a foot may crush them

or that some wild animal may trample them.

16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,

with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

17 For God has deprived her of wisdom;

He has not endowed her with understanding.

18 When she proudlyspreads her wings,

she laughs at the horse and its rider.

19 Do you give strength to the horse?

Do you adorn his neck with a mane?

20 Do you make him leap like a locust?

His proud snorting fills one with terror.

21 He pawsin the valley and rejoices in his strength;

He charges into battle.

22 He laughs at fear, since he is afraid of nothing;

he does not run from the sword.

23 A quiver rattles at his side,

along with a flashing spear and a lance.

24 He charges aheadwith trembling rage;

he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.

25 When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly.

He smells the battle from a distance;

he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.

26 Does the hawk take flight by your understanding

and spread its wings to the south?

27 Does the eagle soar at your command

and make its neston high?

28 It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;

its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

29 From there it searches for prey;

its eyes penetrate the distance.

30 Its brood gulps down blood,

and where the slain are, it is there.

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1 TheLordanswered Job:

2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?

Let him who argues with God give an answer.

3 Then Job answered theLord:

4 I am so insignificant. How can I answer You?

I place my hand over my mouth.

5 I have spoken once, and I will not reply;

twice, but now I can add nothing.

6 Then theLordanswered Job from the whirlwind:

7 Get ready to answer Me like a man;

When I questionyou, you will inform Me.

8 Would you really challenge My justice?

Would you declare Me guiltyto justify yourself?

9 Do you have an arm like God’s?

Can you thunder with a voice like His?

10 Adorn yourself with majestyand splendor,

and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

11 Unleash your raging anger;

look on every proud person and humiliate him.

12 Look on every proud person and humble him;

trample the wicked where they stand.

13 Hide them together in the dust;

imprison them in the grave.

14 Then I will confess to you

that your own right handcan deliver you.

15 Look at Behemoth,

which I made along with you.

He eats grass like an ox.

16 Look at the strength of his loins

and the power in the muscles of his belly.

17 He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree;

the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

18 His bones are bronze tubes;

his limbs are like iron rods.

19 He is the foremost of God’s works;

only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

20 The hills yield food for him,

while all sorts of wild animals play there.

21 He lies under the lotus plants,

hiding in the protectionof marshy reeds.

22 Lotus plants cover him with their shade;

the willows by the brook surround him.

23 Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid;

he remains confident, even if the Jordan surges up to his mouth.

24 Can anyone capture him while he looks on,

or pierce his nose with snares?

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1 Can you pull in Leviathanwith a hook

or tie his tongue down with a rope?

2 Can you put a cordthrough his nose

or pierce his jaw with a hook?

3 Will he beg you for mercy

or speak softly to you?

4 Will he make a covenant with you

so that you can take him as a slave forever?

5 Can you play with him like a bird

or put him on a leashfor your girls?

6 Will traders bargain for him

or divide him among the merchants?

7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons

or his head with fishing spears?

8 Lay ahand on him.

You will remember the battle

and never repeat it!

9 Any hope of capturing him proves false.

Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

10 No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan;

who then can stand against Me?

11 Who confronted Me, that I should repay him?

Everything under heaven belongs to Me.

12 I cannot be silent about his limbs,

his power, and his graceful proportions.

13 Who can strip off his outer covering?

Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

14 Who can open his jaws,

surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

15 His pride is in his rows of scales,

closely sealed together.

16 One scale is so close to another

that no air can pass between them.

17 They are joined to one another,

so closely connectedthey cannot be separated.

18 His snortingflashes with light,

while his eyes are like the raysof dawn.

19 Flaming torches shoot from his mouth;

fiery sparks fly out!

20 Smoke billows from his nostrils

as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

21 His breath sets coals ablaze,

and flames pour out of his mouth.

22 Strength resides in his neck,

and dismay dances before him.

23 The folds of his flesh are joined together,

solid as metaland immovable.

24 His heart is as hard as a rock,

as hard as a lower millstone!

25 When Leviathan rises, the mightyare terrified;

they withdraw because of his thrashing.

26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect,

nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

27 He regards iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

28 No arrow can make him flee;

slingstones become like stubble to him.

29 A club is regarded as stubble,

and he laughsat the sound of a javelin.

30 His undersides are jagged potsherds,

spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron;

he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

32 He leaves a shining wake behind him;

one would think the deep had gray hair!

33 He has no equal on earth —

a creature devoid of fear!

34 He surveys everything that is haughty;

he is king over all the proud beasts.

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Job Replies to the Lord

1 Then Job replied to theLord:

2 Iknow that You can do anything

and no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

3 You asked, “Who is this who conceals My counsel with ignorance? ”

Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me toknow.

4 You said, “Listen now, and I will speak.

When I questionyou, you will inform Me.”

5 I had heard rumors about You,

but now my eyeshave seen You.

6 Therefore I take back my words

and repent in dust and ashes.

7 After theLordhad finished speakingto Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.

8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you.I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.”

9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as theLordhad told them, and theLordaccepted Job’s prayer.

God Restores Job

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, theLordrestored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintancescame to his house and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity theLordhad brought on him. Each one gave him aqesitahand a gold earring.

12 So theLordblessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

17 Then Job died, old and full of days.

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