Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job 2:10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. …
Job 11:3 Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall …
Job 15:5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
Psalm 26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Psalm 50:18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been …
Psalm 73:12-15 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase …
Proverbs 1:15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks …
Proverbs 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
It
Job 9:22,23,30,31 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and …
Job 21:14-16,30 Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the …
Job 22:17 Which said to God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job 35:3 For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit …
Malachi 3:14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that …
delight
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call on God?
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires …
Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
understanding. Heb. heart
Job 34:2,3,34 Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear to me, you that have knowledge…
Proverbs 6:32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he …
Proverbs 15:32 He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears …
far
Job 8:3 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?
Job 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in …
Genesis 18:25 That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous …
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: …
2 Chronicles 19:7 Why now let the fear of the LORD be on you; take heed and do it: …
Psalm 92:15 To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no …
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk …
Romans 3:4,5 God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is …
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot …
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
the work
Job 33:26 He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall …
Psalm 62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according …
Proverbs 24:12 If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the …
Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for your eyes are open on all …
Ezekiel 33:17-20 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: …
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his …
Romans 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every …
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every …
cause
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled …
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
Who hath given
Job 36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?
Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, …
Job 40:8-11 Will you also cancel my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may …
1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and …
Proverbs 8:23-30 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was…
Isaiah 40:13,14 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has …
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and …
Romans 11:34-36 For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor…
the whole world. Heb. the world, all of it
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
accepteth
Job 13:8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great …
2 Chronicles 19:7 Why now let the fear of the LORD be on you; take heed and do it: …
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that …
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Galatians 2:6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatever they were, it makes …
Ephesians 6:9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: …
Colossians 3:25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has …
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
Hebrews 12:28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, …
princes
Job 12:19,21 He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty…
Psalm 2:2-4 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel …
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Isaiah 3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, …
regardeth
Job 36:19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Psalm 49:6,7 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude …
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …
they
Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion …
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors …
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
a moment
Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly …
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, …
Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god…
Daniel 5:30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise …
troubled
Exodus 12:29,30 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn …
Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the …
Matthew 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; …
Luke 17:26-29 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days …
the mighty shall be taken away. Heb. they shall take away the mighty. without
1 Samuel 25:37-39 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of …
1 Samuel 26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD lives, the LORD shall smite him; …
Isaiah 10:16-19 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness…
Isaiah 30:30-33 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall …
Daniel 2:34,44,45 You saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote …
Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the …
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Job 31:4 Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her, You God see …
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…
Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders …
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Jeremiah 16:17 For my eyes are on all their ways: they are not hid from my face, …
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every …
Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for your eyes are open on all …
Amos 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I …
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
no
Psalm 139:11,12 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall …
Isaiah 29:15 Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and …
Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said …
Amos 9:2,3 Though they dig into hell, there shall my hand take them; though …
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…
Revelation 6:15,16 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
nor
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell …
Job 24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know …
Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they …
the
Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the …
Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall …
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, …
Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not from where you are; …
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
he will
Job 34:10-12 Therefore listen to me you men of understanding: far be it from God, …
Job 11:6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom…
Ezra 9:13 And after all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our …
Psalm 119:137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.
Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he …
Daniel 9:7-9 O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, …
that he
Job 9:32,33 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should …
Job 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Job 23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered …
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …
Romans 9:20 No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing …
enter. Heb. go
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
break
Job 19:2 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces …
Psalm 72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children …
Psalm 94:5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
Jeremiah 51:20-23 You are my battle ax and weapons of war: for with you will I break …
Daniel 2:21,34,35,44,45 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets …
number. Heb. searching out. set
1 Samuel 2:30-36 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from …
1 Kings 14:7,8,14 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, For as much …
Psalm 113:7,8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of …
Daniel 5:28-31 PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians…
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
in
Exodus 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; …
Deuteronomy 13:9-11 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to …
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …
2 Samuel 12:11,12 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out …
Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look on the carcasses of the men that …
1 Timothy 5:20,24 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear…
Revelation 18:9,10,20 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …
open sight of others. Heb. place of beholders
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
turned
1 Samuel 15:11 It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned …
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead …
Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have …
Luke 17:31,32 In that day, he which shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in …
Acts 15:38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from …
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is …
Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that …
from him. Heb. from after him. would
Psalm 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation …
Psalm 107:43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand …
Proverbs 1:29,30 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD…
Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel …
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in …
Haggai 2:15-19 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before …
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
they
Job 22:9,10 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have …
Job 24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries …
Job 29:12,13 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Job 31:19,20 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering…
Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed …
Exodus 2:23,24 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …
Exodus 3:7,9 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …
Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and …
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
and he
Exodus 22:23-27 If you afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will …
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
When he giveth
Job 29:1-3 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said…
2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD …
Isaiah 14:3-8 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you …
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: …
Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness …
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world …
Romans 8:31-34 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can …
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep …
when he hideth
Job 23:8,9 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot …
Psalm 13:1 How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you …
Psalm 27:9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: …
Psalm 30:7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you …
Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from …
who then can behold
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up …
Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, …
whether
2 Kings 18:9-12 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was …
2 Chronicles 36:14-17 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed …
Jeremiah 27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will …
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Job 34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.
1 Kings 12:28-30 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
2 Kings 21:9 But they listened not…
Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly …
Hosea 13:11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house …
2 Thessalonians 2:4-11 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that …
Revelation 13:3,4,11-14 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly …
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job 33:27 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that …
Job 40:3-5 Then Job answered the LORD, and said…
Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them …
Ezra 9:13,14 And after all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our …
Nehemiah 9:33-38 However, you are just in all that is brought on us; for you have …
Jeremiah 31:18,19 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …
Daniel 9:7-14 O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, …
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against …
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
which
Job 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
Psalm 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
Psalm 25:4,5 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths…
Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: …
Psalm 139:23,24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts…
Psalm 143:8-10 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you …
if
Proverbs 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses …
Luke 3:8-14 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not …
Ephesians 4:22,25-28 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, …
Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
Should
Job 9:12 Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What do you?
Job 18:4 He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? …
Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with …
Romans 9:20 No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing …
Romans 11:35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
according to thy mind. Heb. from with thee. he will
Job 34:11 For the work of a man shall he render to him, and cause every man …
Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be …
Psalm 89:30-32 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments…
Proverbs 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more …
2 Thessalonians 1:6,7 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation …
Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression …
Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures …
whether thou refuse
Psalm 135:6 Whatever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in …
Matthew 20:12-15 Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them …
what
Job 33:5,32 If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up…
Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
My desire is that Job may be tried. or, My father, let Job be tried
Job 23:16 For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:
Psalm 17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have …
Psalm 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
James 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience …
his answers
Job 34:8,9 Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men…
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are …
Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?
Job 24:1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that …
For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
rebellion
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …
Isaiah 1:19,20 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land…
he clappeth
Job 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
multiplieth
Job 8:2,3 How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words …
Job 11:2,3 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full …
Job 35:2,3,16 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more …
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, …
