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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_34_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_34_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21dbf85 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_34_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Job. +Chapter 34. +And Elihu made answer and said, +Give ear, you wise, to my words; and you who have knowledge, give attention to me; +For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth. +Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good. +For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right; +Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong. +What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God, +And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners? +For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God. +Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong. +For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways. +Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge. +Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world? +If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again, +All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust. +If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words. +How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil? +He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; +Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands. +Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man. +For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. +There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover. +For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged. +He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place. +For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed. +The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers. +Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways, +So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears. +... +... +... +... +... +Men of knowledge, and all wise men, hearing me, will say, +Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom. +May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men. +For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him. |