Hiob 34

1. ¹Moreover Elihu answered and said,
2. ²Hear my words, ye wise [ergänzt: men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
3. ³For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
4. ⁴Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good!
5. ⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:
6. ⁶Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
7. ⁷What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
8. ⁸And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
9. ⁹For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
10. ¹⁰Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!
11. ¹¹For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to [ergänzt: his] way.
12. ¹²Yea, surely, God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment.
13. ¹³Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath disposed the whole world?
14. ¹⁴If he only thought of himself, [ergänzt: and] gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,
15. ¹⁵All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.
16. ¹⁶If now [ergänzt: thou hast] understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words!
17. ¹⁷Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?
18. ¹⁸Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked?
19. ¹⁹[ergänzt: How then to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.
20. ²⁰In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand.
21. ²¹For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps.
22. ²²There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23. ²³For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.
24. ²⁴He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead;
25. ²⁵Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth [ergänzt: them] in the night, and they are crushed.
26. ²⁶He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,
27. ²⁷Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;
28. ²⁸So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
29. ²⁹When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth [ergänzt: his] face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike;
30. ³⁰That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.
31. ³¹For hath he said unto God, I bear [ergänzt: chastisement], I will not offend;
32. ³²What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?
33. ³³Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused [ergänzt: his judgment]; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.
34. ³⁴Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:
35. ³⁵Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.
36. ³⁶Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of [ergänzt: his] answers after the manner of evil men!
37. ³⁷For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [ergänzt: his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

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