Job 34:16
If you have understanding, hear this; listen to my words.
BSB
ASV
If now thou hast understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.
KJV
If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
If now thou hast understanding hear this - This appears to be addressed to Job. The discourse before this had been directed to his three friends, but Elihu appears here to have turned to Job, and to have made a solemn appeal to him, whether this were not so. In the subsequent verses he remonstrates with him about his views, and shows him that what he had said implied severe reflections on the character and government of God.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk5
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.
Through
Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
leads to
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him.
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!