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Elihu Proclaims God’s Justice

1 Elihu further answered and said:
2 “Hear my words, you wise men;
Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
3 aFor the ear tests words
As the palate tastes food. 
4 Let us choose justice for ourselves;
Let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 “For Job has said, a‘I am righteous,
But bGod has taken away my justice; 
6 aShould I lie concerning my1 right?
My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’ 
7 What man is like Job,
aWho drinks1 scorn like water, 
8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,
And walks with wicked men?
9 For ahe has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
That he should delight in God.’ 
10 “Therefore listen to me, you1 men of understanding:
aFar be it from God to do wickedness,
And from the Almighty to commit iniquity. 
11 aFor He repays man according to his work,
And makes man to find a reward according to his way. 
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Job 34:3

For the ear trieth words - Ascertains their meaning, and especially determines what words are worth regarding. The object of this is, to fix the attention on what he was about to say; to get the ear so that every word should make its proper impression. The word ear in this place, however, seems not to be used to denote the external organ, but the whole faculty of hearing. It is by hearing that the meaning of what is said is determined, as it is by the taste that the quality of food is discerned.

As the mouth tasteth meat - Margin, as in Hebrew "palate." The meaning is, as the organ of taste determines the nature of the various articles of food. The same figure is used by Job in Job 12:11.


 
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