Job 33:32
But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
BSB
ASV
If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.
KJV
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Eliu has uttered great and very powerful words. But it is a characteristic of every boastful person, that, while giving utterance to truths and mysteries, he suddenly blends with them, through pride of heart, some foolish and proud expressions. For he endeavours to please the world without, in that which he thinks with truth; and is soon despoiled of the truth, just as through haughtiness of pride he goes back from what is inward. For, because he seeks to be approved of outwardly as a man of learning, he loses inwardly the fulness of wisdom, in which he was instructed.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 27:5I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
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Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as…
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.
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Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
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Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.