“Elihu Vindicates God’s Justice”
¶ Moreover Elihu answered and said,
¶ Hear my words, ye wise men;
¶ And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
¶ For the ear trieth words,
¶ As the palate tasteth food.
¶ Let us choose for us that which is right:
¶ Let us know among ourselves what is good.
¶ For Job hath said, I am righteous,
¶ And God hath taken away my right:
¶ Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar;
¶ My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
¶ What man is like Job,
¶ Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
¶ Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,
¶ And walketh with wicked men?
¶ For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing
¶ That he should delight himself with God.
¶ Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding:
¶ Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness,
¶ And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
¶ For the work of a man will he render unto him,
¶ And cause every man to find according to his ways.
¶ Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly,
¶ Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
¶ Who gave him a charge over the earth?
¶ Or who hath disposed the whole world?
¶ If he set his heart upon himself,
¶ If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
¶ All flesh shall perish together,
¶ And man shall turn again unto dust.
¶ If now thou hast understanding, hear this:
¶ Hearken to the voice of my words.
¶ Shall even one that hateth justice govern?
¶ And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?—
¶ Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile,
¶ Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;
¶ That respecteth not the persons of princes,
¶ Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor;
¶ For they all are the work of his hands.
¶ In a moment they die, even at midnight;
¶ The people are shaken and pass away,
¶ And the mighty are taken away without hand.
¶ For his eyes are upon the ways of a man,
¶ And he seeth all his goings.
¶ There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,
¶ Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
¶ For he needeth not further to consider a man,
¶ That he should go before God in judgment.
¶ He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out,
¶ And setteth others in their stead.
¶ Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works;
¶ And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
¶ He striketh them as wicked men
¶ In the open sight of others;
¶ Because they turned aside from following him,
¶ And would not have regard in any of his ways:
¶ So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him,
¶ And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
¶ When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn?
¶ And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him?
¶ Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man:
¶ That the godless man reign not,
¶ That there be none to ensnare the people.
¶ For hath any said unto God,
¶ I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
¶ That which I see not teach thou me:
¶ If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
¶ Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it?
¶ For thou must choose, and not I:
¶ Therefore speak what thou knowest.
¶ Men of understanding will say unto me,
¶ Yea, every wise man that heareth me:
¶ Job speaketh without knowledge,
¶ And his words are without wisdom.
¶ Would that Job were tried unto the end,
¶ Because of his answering like wicked men.
¶ For he addeth rebellion unto his sin;
¶ He clappeth his hands among us,
¶ And multiplieth his words against God.
If he gather unto himself his spirit and his__________ ;
For his are upon the ways of a man,
Shall his __ be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it?
And multiplieth his words ________God.
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