For Job has declared, “I am righteous,
yet God has deprived me of justice.(A)
Would I lie about my case?(B)
My wound[a] is incurable,
though I am without transgression.”
What man is like Job?
He drinks derision(C) like water.
He keeps company with evildoers
and walks with wicked men.
For he has said, “A man gains nothing
when he becomes God’s friend.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 34:6 Lit arrow

For Job has said, ‘I am innocent,
    and God has taken away my right;
in spite of being right I am counted a liar;
    my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’(A)
Who is there like Job,
    who drinks up scoffing like water,(B)
who goes in company with evildoers
    and walks with the wicked?(C)
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing
    to take delight in God.’(D)

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