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In disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
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Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?
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Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you?
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For He knows deceitful men; He sees wickedness also. Will He not then consider it?
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Wisdom is with aged men, And with length of days, understanding.
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What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
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“But He has made me a byword of the people, And I have become one in whose face men spit.
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Upright men are astonished at this, And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
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Will you keep to the old way Which wicked men have trod,
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Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
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He breaks open a shaft away from people; In places forgotten by feet They hang far away from men; They swing to and fro.
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No mention shall be made of coral or quartz, For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
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The young men saw me and hid, And the aged arose and stood;
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“Men listened to me and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
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Job’s Wealth Now Poverty
“But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
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They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.
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They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land.
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If the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been satisfied with his meat?’
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Elihu Contradicts Job’s Friends
So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.
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Great men are not always wise, Nor do the aged always understand justice.
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In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
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Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction.
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Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’
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“Hear my words, you wise men; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
