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