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² "Listen to my words, you wise men;
hear me, you learned men.
³ For the ear assesses words
as the mouth tastes food.
⁴ Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right;
let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
⁵ For Job says, ‘I am innocent,
but God turns away my right.
⁶ Concerning my right, should I lie?
My wound is incurable,
although I am without transgression.'
⁷ What man is like Job,
who drinks derision like water!
⁸ He goes about in company with evildoers,
he goes along with wicked men.
⁹ For he says, ‘It does not profit a man
when he makes his delight with God.'

¹⁰ "Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from God to do wickedness,
from the Almighty to do evil.
¹¹ For he repays a person for his work,
and according to the conduct of a person,
he causes the consequences to find him.
¹² Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly,
and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
¹³ Who entrusted to him the earth?
And who put him over the whole world?
¹⁴ If God were to set his heart on it,
and gather in his spirit and his breath,
¹⁵ all flesh would perish together
and human beings would return to dust.

¹⁶ "If you have understanding, listen to this,
hear what I have to say.
¹⁷ Do you really think
that one who hates justice can govern?
And will you declare guilty
the supremely righteous One,
¹⁸ who says to a king, ‘Worthless man'
and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,'
¹⁹ who shows no partiality to princes,
and does not take note of the rich more than the poor,
because all of them are the work of his hands?
²⁰ In a moment they die, in the middle of the night,
people are shaken and they pass away.
The mighty are removed effortlessly.
²¹ For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,
he observes all a person's steps.
²² There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,
where evildoers can hide themselves.
²³ For he does not still consider a person,
that he should come before God in judgment.
²⁴ He shatters the great without inquiry,
and sets up others in their place.
²⁵ Therefore, he knows their deeds,
he overthrows them in the night
and they are crushed.
²⁶ He strikes them for their wickedness,
in a place where people can see,
²⁷ because they have turned away from following him,
and have not understood any of his ways,
²⁸ so that they caused the cry of the poor
to come before him,
so that he hears the cry of the needy.
²⁹ But if God is quiet, who can condemn him?
If he hides his face, then who can see him?
Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
³⁰ so that the godless man should not rule,
and not lay snares for the people.

³¹ "Has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured chastisement,
but I will not act wrongly any more.
³² Teach me what I cannot see.
If I have done evil, I will do so no more.'
³³ Is it your opinion that God should recompense it,
because you reject this?
But you must choose, and not I,
so tell us what you know.
³⁴ Men of understanding say to me—
any wise man listening to me says—
³⁵ that Job speaks without knowledge
and his words are without understanding.
³⁶ But Job will be tested to the end,
because his answers are like those of wicked men.
³⁷ For he adds transgression to his sin;
in our midst he claps his hands,
and multiplies his words against God."