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JOB 33

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Elihu Rebukes Job

33:1

“But now, hear my speech, O Job,

and listen to all my words. 2

Behold, I open my mouth;

the tongue in my mouth speaks. 3

My words declare the uprightness of my heart,

and what my lips know they speak sincerely. 4

The Spirit of God has made me,

and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. 5

Answer me, if you can;

set your words in order before me; take your stand. 6

Behold, I am toward God as you are;

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. 7

Behold, no fear of me need terrify you;

my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
8

“Surely you have spoken in my ears,

and I have heard the sound of your words. 9

You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression;

I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. 10

Behold, he finds occasions against me,

he counts me as his enemy, 11

he puts my feet in the stocks

and watches all my paths.’
12

“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,

for God is greater than man. 13

Why do you contend against him,

saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’? 14

For God speaks in one way,

and in two, though man does not perceive it. 15

In a dream, in a vision of the night,

when deep sleep falls on men,

while they slumber on their beds, 16

then he opens the ears of men

and terrifies them with warnings, 17

that he may turn man aside from his deed

and conceal pride from a man; 18

he keeps back his soul from the pit,

his life from perishing by the sword.
19

“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed

and with continual strife in his bones, 20

so that his life loathes bread,

and his appetite the choicest food. 21

His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,

and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22

His soul draws near the pit,

and his life to those who bring death. 23

If there be for him an angel,

a mediator, one of the thousand,

to declare to man what is right for him, 24

and he is merciful to him, and says,

‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;

I have found a ransom; 25

let his flesh become fresh with youth;

let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’; 26

then man prays to God, and he accepts him;

he sees his face with a shout of joy,

and he restores to man his righteousness. 27

He sings before men and says:

‘I sinned and perverted what was right,

and it was not repaid to me. 28

He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit,

and my life shall look upon the light.’
29

“Behold, God does all these things,

twice, three times, with a man, 30

to bring back his soul from the pit,

that he may be lighted with the light of life. 31

Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;

be silent, and I will speak. 32

If you have any words, answer me;

speak, for I desire to justify you. 33

If not, listen to me;

be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

ROMANS 2

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God’s Righteous Judgment

2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no partiality. God’s Judgment and the Law

12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
25 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. 28 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.