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Job Replies: I Am a Laughingstock
Then Job answered:
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Job’s Despondent Prayer
“Only grant two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:
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Eliphaz Speaks: Job Undermines Religion
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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Job Reaffirms His Innocence
Then Job answered:
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Job Prays for Relief
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the grave is ready for me.
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Job Replies: I Know That My Vindicator Lives
Then Job answered:
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Job Replies: The Wicked Often Go Unpunished
Then Job answered:
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Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Bitter
Then Job answered:
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Job Complains of Violence on the Earth
“Why are times not kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
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Job Replies: God’s Majesty Is Unsearchable
Then Job answered:
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Job Maintains His Integrity
Job again took up his discourse and said:
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Job Finishes His Defense
Job again took up his discourse and said:
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let thorns grow instead of wheat and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
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Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;
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he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
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Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.
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I gave you my attention, but there was, in fact, no one who confuted Job, no one among you who answered his words.
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Elihu Rebukes Job
“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.
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Pay heed, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
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For Job has said, ‘I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;
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Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
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‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.’
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Would that Job were tried to the limit, because his answers are those of the wicked.