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Elihu's Intervention: Rebuke and Praise of God's Majesty (part 3)

Job 34:34-36:24

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Chapter 34
34 Men of heart will say to me, and a wise fighting man will hear me. 35 Job does not speak with skilled knowledge, and his words are not with wisdom. 36 My father, test Job as witness to triumph over your ceasing in the men of the North. 37 For he adds transgression to his sin offering; among us he claps and multiplies his words to God.
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Chapter 35
1 Then Elihu answered and said: 2 Is this right for God? You think it is just. You say, "My righteousness is from God." 3 For you say, "What does it profit you? What do I gain from my sin offering?" 4 I will return your words to you, and your companions with you. 5 Look at the heavens and see, and gaze at the skies—its height is above you. 6 If you sin, what will you do to him? And if your transgressions are many, what will you do to him? 7 If you are righteous, what will you give him? Or what will he take from your hand? 8 Your wickedness is to a man like you, and your righteousness to a son of Adam. 9 Because of the multitude of oppressed people, they cry out; they cry for deliverance, their salvation from the arm of the mighty. 10 But he does not say that God makes them give songs in the night. 11 It teaches us from the beasts of the earth and from the birds of the heavens; it makes us wise. 12 There they cry out, but he does not answer because of the pride of the wicked. 13 Surely God will not hear in vain, and Shaddai will not straighten it. 14 Even though you say, "We will not see him," judgment is before his face, and you wait for him. 15 And now, because he has not visited in his anger and has not paid much attention to transgression. 16 And Job multiplies words without knowledge. He opens his mouth in vanity.
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Chapter 36
1 And Elihu continued and said. 2 Wait for me a little, and I will show you, for there are yet words for God. 3 I will bear my knowledge from afar, and to my Maker I will give righteousness. 4 For indeed, my tongue does not lie; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you. 5 Behold—God is mighty, and he does not reject a mighty heart of power. 6 He does not let the wicked dwell, and he gives judgment to the poor. 7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, and he seats kings on a throne forever and exalts them. 8 And if they are bound in fetters, they are captured in the cords of poverty. 9 And he declares to them their deed and their transgressions, for they have become mighty. 10 And he reveals their ear to discipline, and he says, "For they will dwell in a divine dwelling." 11 If they listen and serve, they will spend their days in good and their years in pleasant ones. 12 And if they do not hear or obey when sent, they will pass away and die like bonds of knowledge. 13 And the godless hypocrites of heart—they establish anger; they will not be divinely rescued, for he has bound them. 14 Their soul dies in youth, and their life among the holy ones. 15 He delivers the afflicted in their affliction, and he reveals their ear in distress. 16 And he also acted treacherously with you from the mouth of distress—a broad place not constricted beneath it—and repose of your table full of fatness. 17 And you have filled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice will support you. 18 For wrath—lest it entice you into excess, and let not the abundance of ransom sway you. 19 Will he not value your cry in Affliction or all forces of strength? 20 Do not desire the night, you peoples under it. 21 Take care—do not turn to iniquity, for you have chosen it rather than affliction. 22 Behold—God exalts by his power; who like him teaches? 23 Who has appointed his way over him, and who has said, "She has done injustice"? 24 Remember that you err in his work, which men have praised.