Chapter 34
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Moreover Elihu answered,
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"Hear my words, you wise women. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
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For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
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Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
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For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
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Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
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What woman is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
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Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked women?
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For she has said, 'It profits a woman nothing that she should delight herself with God.'
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"Therefore listen to me, you women of understanding: far be it from God, that she should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that she should commit iniquity.
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For the work of a woman she will render to her, and cause every woman to find according to her ways.
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Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
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Who gave her a charge over the earth? or who has appointed her over the whole world?
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If she set her heart on herself, If she gathered to herself her spirit and her breath,
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all flesh would perish together, and woman would turn again to dust.
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"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.
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Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn her who is righteous and mighty?--
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Who says to a queen, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?
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Who doesn't respect the persons of princesses, nor regards the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of her hands.
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In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
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"For her eyes are on the ways of a woman. She sees all her goings.
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There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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For she doesn't need to consider a woman further, that she should go before God in judgment.
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She breaks in pieces mighty women in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.
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Therefore she takes knowledge of their works. She overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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She strikes them as wicked women in the open sight of others;
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because they turned aside from following her, and wouldn't pay attention to any of her ways,
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so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to her. She heard the cry of the afflicted.
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When she gives quietness, who then can condemn? When she hides her face, who then can see her? Alike whether to a nation, or to a woman,
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that the godless woman may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.
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"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
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Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
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Shall her recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
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Women of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise woman who hears me:
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'Job speaks without knowledge. Her words are without wisdom.'
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I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of her answering like wicked women.
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For she adds rebellion to her sin. She claps her hands among us, and multiplies her words against God."