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Moreover Elihu answered and said,
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Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
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For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
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Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.
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For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
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Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
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What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
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Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
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For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
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Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
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For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
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Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
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Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?
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If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
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All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
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If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.
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Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?-
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[Him] that saith to a king, [Thou art] vile, [Or] to nobles, [Ye are] wicked;
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That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
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In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
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For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.
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There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
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He breaketh in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.
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Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
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Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:
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So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
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When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man:
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That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.
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For hath any said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:
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That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
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Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.
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Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:
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Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.
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Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
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For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.

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There must be love in the relation between the person who says "I am" and the observer of that "I am". As long as the observer, the inner self, the higher self, considers himself apart from the observed, the lower self, despises it and condemns it, the situation is hopeless. It is only when the observer (vyakta) accepts the person (vyakti) as a projection or manifestation of himself and, so to say, takes the self into the Self, the duality of "I" and "this" goes, and in the identity of the outer and the inner the Supreme Reality manifests itself. This union of the seer and the seen happens when the seer becomes conscious of himself as the seer; he is not merely interested in the seen, which he is anyhow, but also interested in being interested, giving attention to attention, aware of being aware. Affectionate awareness is the crucial factor that brings Reality into focus. When the vyakti realizes its non-existence in separation from the vyakta, and the vyakta sees the vyakti as his own expression, then the peace and silence of the avyakta state come into being. In reality the three are one: the vyakta and the avyakta are inseparable, while the vyakti is the sensing-feeling-thinking process.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj