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31 “Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have sinned,
    but I will sin no more’?
32 Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done—tell me.
    If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’?

33 “Must God tailor his justice to your demands?
    But you have rejected him!
The choice is yours, not mine.
    Go ahead, share your wisdom with us.

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31 “Indeed, does anyone say to God, ‘I have endured chastisement;
I will not act corruptly again;
32 teach me yourself what I cannot see;[a]
if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it’?
33 According to your judgment,[b] must he repay it because you rejected this?
Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so[c] declare what you know.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:32 Literally “apart from what I can see”
  2. Job 34:33 Literally “from with you”
  3. Job 34:33 Hebrew “And”