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Job 40:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

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What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.




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