Job 34:37

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

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  • Job 27:23 : 23 It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
  • 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the LORD’s orders, he has rejected you from being king.”
  • Isa 1:19-20 : 19 If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land. 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.
  • Job 8:2-3 : 2 “How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind? 3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 “Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated? 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?
  • Job 23:2 : 2 “Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
  • Job 35:2-3 : 2 “Do you think this to be just: when you say,‘My right before God.’ 3 But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
  • Job 35:16 : 16 So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
  • Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

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  • 1 A Protest of Innocence And Job took up his discourse again:

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    1 For the music director; written by the LORD’s servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,

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    7 What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

    8 He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

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    22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

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  • 1 IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy(29:1-31:40)Job Recalls His Former Condition Then Job continued his speech:

  • 13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • 27 The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

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    3 Then Job answered the LORD:

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  • 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

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    10 Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

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  • 17 he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

  • 10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

  • 22 In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

  • 5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

  • 5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

  • 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • 3 A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • 6 The Proud Babylonians Are as Good as Dead“But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him(How long will this go on?)– he who gets rich by extortion!’

  • 3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • 3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

  • 26 He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

  • 6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

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  • 1 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job answered:

  • 17 You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

  • 3 Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.

  • 6 Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and prove you to be a liar.

  • 1 Job Replies to Eliphaz Then Job responded:

  • 11 They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”

  • 3 With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

  • 31 No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.