Job 34:5-15

5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
7 What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'
10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11 For the work of a man will he render to him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13 Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?
14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;
15 All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
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