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Job 15:5

New International Reader's Version

Your sin makes you say evil things. You talk like people who twist the truth.

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I wish he’d show you the secrets of wisdom. After all, true wisdom has two sides. Here’s what I want you to know. God has forgotten some of your sins.

Why doesn’t anyone bother the tents of robbers? Why do those who make God angry remain secure? They are in God’s hands!

But you even cause others to lose their respect for God. You make it hard for them to be faithful to him.

Haven’t you done many evil things? Don’t you sin again and again?

So the three men stopped answering Job, because he thought he was right.

But Elihu the Buzite was very angry with Job. That’s because Job said he himself was right instead of God. Elihu was the son of Barakel. He was from the family of Ram.

He stops the evil plans of those who are clever. The work of their hands doesn’t succeed.

Some people think they are so wise. But God catches them in their own tricks. He sweeps away the evil plans of sinful people.

They make their tongues like sharp swords. They aim their mean words like deadly arrows.

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They tell lies. With their mouths all of them speak kindly to their neighbors. But in their hearts they set traps for them.

A good man says good things. These come from the good that is stored up in his heart. An evil man says evil things. These come from the evil that is stored up in his heart. A person’s mouth says everything that is in their heart.

Suppose people think their beliefs and how they live are both right. But they don’t control what they say. Then they are fooling themselves. Their beliefs and way of life are not worth anything at all.




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