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"For He repays a person for his work, And lets things happen in correspondence to a man's behavior.

"If He were to determine to do so, If He were to gather His spirit and His breath to Himself,

Who shows no partiality to the prominent, Nor regards the rich as above the poor, Since they are all the work of His hands?

"For His eyes are upon the ways of a person, And He sees all his steps.

Because they turned aside from following Him, And had no regard for any of His ways,

When He keeps quiet, who can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can look at Him, That is, regarding both nation and a person?—

"Shall God repay on your terms, because you have rejected His? For you must choose, and not I; Therefore declare what you know.

'Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

'For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God.'"

"And now, because He has not avenged His anger, Nor has He acknowledged wrongdoing well,

So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words without knowledge."

"He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

"Behold, God is exalted in His power; Who is a teacher like Him?

"Who has appointed Him His way, And who has said, 'You have done wrong'?

"Remember that you are to exalt His work, Of which people have sung.

"Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?

"Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea.

"He covers His hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the target.

"Its thundering voice declares His presence; The livestock also, concerning what is coming up.