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Elihu's Intervention: Rebuke and Praise of God's Majesty (part 2)

Job 33:23-34:33

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Chapter 33
23 If there is over him an angel mediator, one from a thousand, to tell man his uprightness. 24 And he graciously favored him and said, "I redeem him from descending to the Pit; I have found a ransom." 25 His flesh returns from youth. He will return to the days of his hiddenness. 26 He will pray to God, and He will be pleased with him and will see his face with joy, and He will restore to man his righteousness. 27 He testified uprightly about men and said, "I have sinned and I have made uprightness err, and it has not been fitting for me." 28 He redeemed his soul from passing into Sheol, and his life will see the light. 29 Behold—all these things God does two or three times with a man. 30 to return his nephesh from the pit to light, in the light of the lives. 31 Pay attention, Job. Listen to me. Be silent—and I will speak. 32 If there are words, answer me; speak, for I delight in your righteousness. 33 If you have nothing to say, be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.
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Chapter 34
1 And Elihu answered and said: 2 Hear my words, skilled artisans, and give ear to me, knowing ones. 3 For the ear tests words just as the palate tastes food. 4 Justice has been chosen for us; let us know between us what is good. 5 For Job has said, "I am righteous, but God has turned away my justice." 6 Against my legal right I have been deceived; my mortal arrow wounds without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water? 8 and a path of companionship with doers of iniquity and to walk with men of wickedness. 9 For he said, "A man will not profit by his atonement acceptance with God." 10 Therefore, men of heart, hear me: profaning God from the wicked and Shaddai from injustice. 11 For a man's deed he will repay him, and according to a man's way he will find him. 12 Indeed, God will not act wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice. 13 Who has appointed him over the land, and who has set the whole world in place? 14 If he sets his heart against him, if he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself. 15 All flesh will breathe its last together, and Adam will return to dust. 16 If you have understanding, hear this; give ear to the voice of my words. 17 Indeed, a hater of justice—will he bind? And if a righteous mighty one, will you condemn as wicked? 18 Does one say to a king, "Belial, wicked one," or to nobles, "You worthless ones"? 19 who does not lift the face of officials nor recognize a noble before a poor one, for all of them are the work of his hands. 20 In a moment they die; at midnight the people quake, and they pass away, and they remove the mighty one not by hand. 21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. 22 There is no darkness and no shadow of death where the deeds of the North can hide. 23 For he does not appoint it for a man anymore, to go to God in judgment. 24 He breaks the mighty ones—he does not inquire—and he causes others to stand under them. 25 Therefore he recognizes their works and turns night, and they are crushed. 26 He struck them in the presence of the wicked, in the Place of Seers. 27 because for this reason they turned away from him, and they did not understand all his ways. 28 to bring upon him the cry of the poor and the cry of the afflicted—he will hear. 29 And he is quiet, and who will condemn? And he hides his face, and who will restore us? And upon nation and upon man together. 30 From a king, Adam, a defiler from snares of people. 31 For one does not say to God, "I have borne; I will not act corruptly." 32 Unless you make me see, you teach me. If I have done iniquity, I will not add to it. 33 Does your load repay it? For you rejected it. For you choose, and not I. Now speak what you know.