Jó 34

¹ Moreover Elihu answered and said,

² Hear my words, you{+} wise men; And give ear to me, you{+} who have knowledge.

³ For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.

⁴ Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous, And God has taken away my right:

⁶ Against my right he has lied; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.

⁷ What [noble] man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,

⁸ Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?

⁹ For he has said, It profits a [noble] man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

¹⁰ Therefore listen to me, you{+} men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

¹¹ For the work of man he will render to him, And cause a man to find according to his ways.

¹² Yes, certainly, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

¹³ Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has disposed the whole world?

¹⁴ If he sets his heart on himself, [If] he gathers to himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵ All flesh will perish together, And man will turn again to dust.

¹⁶ If now [you have] understanding, hear this: Listen to the voice of my words.

¹⁷ Will even one who hates justice govern? And will you condemn him who is righteous [and] mighty?–

¹⁸ [Him] who says to a king, [You are] vile, [Or] to nobles, [You{+} are] wicked;

¹⁹ Who does not respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For all of them are the work of his hands.

²⁰ In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without a [human] hand.

²¹ For his eyes are on the ways of a man, And he sees all his goings.

²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

²³ For he does not need further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

²⁴ He breaks in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, And sets others in their stead.

²⁵ Therefore he takes knowledge of their works; And he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

²⁶ He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

²⁷ Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:

²⁸ So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether [it is done] to a nation, or to man:

³⁰ He makes king [the] godless man From among the seducers of the people.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [anymore]:

³² That which I don't see teach me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

³³ Will his recompense be as you will, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what you know.

³⁴ Men of understanding will say to me, And the wise [noble] man will listen to me:

³⁵ Job speaks without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

³⁶ Oh that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

³⁷ For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God.