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God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

Then Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man.'

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

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

"Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man.

For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,

"Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,

For Job has said, 'I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'

"Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.

"For has any one said to God, 'I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;