Job 34

1. ¹And Elihu answereth and saith:
2. ²Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
3. ³For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
4. ⁴Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what `is' good.
5. ⁵For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
6. ⁶Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'
7. ⁷Who `is' a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
8. ⁸And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
9. ⁹For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
10. ¹⁰Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And `from' the Mighty to do perverseness:
11. ¹¹For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
12. ¹²Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
13. ¹³Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
14. ¹⁴If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
15. ¹⁵Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
16. ¹⁶And if `there is' understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
17. ¹⁷Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
18. ¹⁸Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,' Unto princes -- `Wicked?'
19. ¹⁹That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands `are' all of them.
20. ²⁰`In' a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
21. ²¹For His eyes `are' on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
22. ²²There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
23. ²³For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
24. ²⁴He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
25. ²⁵Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
26. ²⁶As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
27. ²⁷Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
28. ²⁸To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
29. ²⁹And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, `It is' the same.
30. ³⁰From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
31. ³¹For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
32. ³²Besides `that which' I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'
33. ³³By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
34. ³⁴Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
35. ³⁵Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words `are' not with wisdom.
36. ³⁶My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
37. ³⁷For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.

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