Job 34

1 And Elihu answereth and saith:YLT — Job 34:1

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

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

4 Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.YLT — Job 34:4

5 For Job hath said, ‘I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,YLT — Job 34:5

6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow — without transgression.’YLT — Job 34:6

7 Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,YLT — Job 34:7

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

9 For he hath said, ‘It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.’YLT — Job 34:9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 Who hath said to a king — ‘Worthless,’ Unto princes — ‘Wicked?’YLT — Job 34:18

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.YLT — Job 34:19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.YLT — Job 34:29

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

31 For unto God hath any said: ‘I have taken away, I do not corruptly,YLT — Job 34:31

32 Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?’YLT — Job 34:32

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

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

35 Job — not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.YLT — Job 34:35

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

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