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Job 27:6

New International Reader's Version

I’ll continue to say I’m right. I’ll never let go of that. I won’t blame myself as long as I live.

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I’ve prepared my case. And I know I’ll be proved right.

But godly people will keep doing what is right. Those who have clean hands will grow stronger.

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? There isn’t anyone on earth like him. He is honest. He does what is right. He has respect for God and avoids evil. You tried to turn me against him. You wanted me to destroy him without any reason. But he still continues to be faithful.”

“May my enemies suffer like sinful people! May my attackers be punished like those who aren’t fair!

I put on a godly life as if it were my clothes. Fairness was my robe and my turban.

So let God weigh me in honest scales. Then he’ll know I haven’t done anything wrong.

Suppose my steps have turned away from the right path. Suppose my heart has wanted what my eyes have seen. Or suppose my hands have become ‘unclean.’

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.

“Would you dare to claim that I am not being fair? Would you judge me in order to make yourself seem right?

Stop what you are saying. Don’t be so unfair. Think it over again. You are trying to take my honesty away from me.

Hold on to my teaching and don’t let it go. Guard it well, because it is your life.

So I always try not to do anything wrong in the eyes of God or in the eyes of people.

I have made a fool of myself. But you made me do it. You should have praised me. Even though I am nothing, I am in no way less important than the “super-apostles.”




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