| 34:1: Moreover Elihu answered, |
| 34:2: "Hear my words, you wise men; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. |
| 34:3: For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food. |
| 34:4: Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. |
| 34:5: For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right: |
| 34:6: Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.' |
| 34:7: What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water, |
| 34:8: Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men? |
| 34:9: For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.' |
| 34:10: "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. |
| 34:11: For the work of a man will he render to him, And cause every man to find according to his ways. |
| 34:12: Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice. |
| 34:13: Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world? |
| 34:14: If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath; |
| 34:15: All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust. |
| 34:16: "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words. |
| 34:17: Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?-- |
| 34:18: Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!' |
| 34:19: Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands. |
| 34:20: In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand. |
| 34:21: "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings. |
| 34:22: There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. |
| 34:23: For he doesn't need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment. |
| 34:24: He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place. |
| 34:25: Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. |
| 34:26: He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others; |
| 34:27: Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways: |
| 34:28: So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted. |
| 34:29: When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man: |
| 34:30: That the godless man may not reign, That there be no one to ensnare the people. |
| 34:31: "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. |
| 34:32: Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'? |
| 34:33: Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. |
| 34:34: Men of understanding will tell me, Yes, every wise man who hears me: |
| 34:35: 'Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.' |
| 34:36: I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men. |
| 34:37: For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God." |
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