34Job 34

1And Elihu answereth and saith:Select Job 34:1

2Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.Select Job 34:2

3For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.Select Job 34:3

4Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.Select Job 34:4

5For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,Select Job 34:5

6Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow--without transgression.'Select Job 34:6

7Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,Select Job 34:7

8And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.Select Job 34:8

9For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'Select Job 34:9

10Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:Select Job 34:10

11For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.Select Job 34:11

12Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.Select Job 34:12

13Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?Select Job 34:13

14If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.Select Job 34:14

15Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.Select Job 34:15

16And if there is understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.Select Job 34:16

17Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?Select Job 34:17

18Who hath said to a king--`Worthless,' Unto princes--`Wicked?'Select Job 34:18

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.Select Job 34:19

20In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.Select Job 34:20

21For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.Select Job 34:21

22There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;Select Job 34:22

23For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,Select Job 34:23

24He breaketh the mighty--no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.Select Job 34:24

25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.Select Job 34:25

26As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.Select Job 34:26

27Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,Select Job 34:27

28To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.Select Job 34:28

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.Select Job 34:29

30From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;Select Job 34:30

31For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,Select Job 34:31

32Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'Select Job 34:32

33By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused--That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.Select Job 34:33

34Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.Select Job 34:34

35Job--not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.Select Job 34:35

36My Father! let Job be tried--unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,Select Job 34:36

37For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.Select Job 34:37