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"Indeed, his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.

because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways,

but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides his face, and who can behold him? Yet he is over a nation and over a person alike,

‘Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight.

Would that Job were tested up to the end because his answers are like those from men of mischief,

for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.'"

But now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,

therefore Job opens his mouth in empty talk— without knowledge he multiplies words."

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted.

He delivers the afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.

"Look, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, ‘You have done wrong'?

Remember that you should extol his work, of which people have sung.

"Look, God is exalted, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.

"Moreover, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place?

Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea.

He covers his hands with lightning, and he commands it the place at which to strike.

His thundering tells about him; the livestock also tell concerning what rises.

Listen carefully to his voice's thunder and the rumbling that goes out from his mouth.

He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth's corners.