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Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.

And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.

Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man.

I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.

The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.

Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.

He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.

Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one.

For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.

For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.

Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn.

Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? for thou begannest to speak, and not I: but if thou know any thing better, speak.

Because he addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean time amongst us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.

Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?