| Job 34:1 |
Then Elihu continued and said, |
| Job 34:2 |
Hear my words, you wise men; / And you who know, give ear to me. |
| Job 34:3 |
For the ear tries words / As the palate tastes food. |
| Job 34:4 |
Let us choose for ourselves what is right; / Let us know among ourselves what is good. |
| Job 34:5 |
For Job has said, I am righteous, / And God has taken away my right; |
| Job 34:6 |
Should I lie against my right? / My arrow wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression. |
| Job 34:7 |
What man is like Job, / Who drinks up scoffing like water, |
| Job 34:8 |
Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity / And walks with wicked men? |
| Job 34:9 |
For he has said, It does not profit a man / To delight himself in God. |
| Job 34:10 |
Therefore, you men of understanding, hear me: / Far be it from God that He would do evil, / And from the Almighty that He would commit iniquity. |
| Job 34:11 |
For He will render a man's work to him / And will cause a man to find that which is according to his own way. |
| Job 34:12 |
Indeed in all certainty God will not do evil, / And the Almighty will not pervert justice. |
| Job 34:13 |
Who has [ever] put the earth in His charge? / Or who has [ever] set [in order] the whole world? |
| Job 34:14 |
If He were to consider Himself [only,] / He would gather back to Himself His spirit and His breath; |
| Job 34:15 |
All flesh would perish together, / And man would return to dust. |
| Job 34:16 |
If then [you have] understanding, hear this; / Give ear to the voice of my words. |
| Job 34:17 |
Shall one who hates justice govern? / And will you condemn the just [and] mighty One, |
| Job 34:18 |
He who says to a king, You worthless one! / [And] to nobles, You wicked one! |
| Job 34:19 |
He who does not respect the persons of princes, / Nor regard the rich man more than the poor, / For they are all the work of His hands? |
| Job 34:20 |
In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night / The people are shaken, and they pass away; / And the mighty are taken away, [but] by no [human] hand. |
| Job 34:21 |
For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, / And He sees all his steps. |
| Job 34:22 |
There is no darkness and no shadow of death / Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. |
| Job 34:23 |
For He does not [need] to consider a man further, / That he should go to God in litigation. |
| Job 34:24 |
He breaks mighty men in pieces without inquiry / And puts others in their stead. |
| Job 34:25 |
Hence He knows their actions, / And He overturns [them] in the night so that they are crushed. |
| Job 34:26 |
He strikes them as He would evil men, / In a place where [all] can see; |
| Job 34:27 |
Because they turned aside from following after Him / And would not regard any of His ways, |
| Job 34:28 |
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him, / And He heard the cry of the afflicted. |
| Job 34:29 |
When He is silent, who can condemn [Him?] / When He hides His face, who can behold Him? / [He does so] toward a nation and toward a man alike, |
| Job 34:30 |
That no profane man would reign, that there would be no snares for the / people. |
| Job 34:31 |
For has anyone [ever] said to God, / I have borne [chastisement;] I will offend no more; |
| Job 34:32 |
What I do not see teach me; / If I have committed iniquity, I will do it no more? |
| Job 34:33 |
Should He recompense to fit you, since you have rejected [it?] / For you must choose, and not I. / So speak what you know. |
| Job 34:34 |
Men of understanding will say to me, / As well as the man of wisdom who hears me, |
| Job 34:35 |
Job has spoken without knowledge, / And his words are without insight. |
| Job 34:36 |
I wish that Job were tried to the limit / Because of his answering like evil men. |
| Job 34:37 |
For he adds rebellion to his sin; / Among us he claps [his hands] / And multiplies his words against God. |