Jubilee2000 - Job - 34

34:1  Furthermore, Elihu answered and said,

34:2  Hear my words, O ye wise [men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

34:3  For the ear tries words, as the mouth tasts food.

34:4  Let us choose our judgment; let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

34:5  For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right.

34:6  In my judgment he was a liar, my arrow [wound] is grievous without [my having committed a] transgression.

34:7  What man [is] like Job, [who] drinks up the scorn like water?

34:8  Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.

34:9  For he said, It shall profit a man nothing that he should conform his will with God.

34:10  Therefore, hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, [that he should do] wickedness; and [from] the Almighty, [that he should commit] iniquity.

34:11  For he shall pay man [according] to his work and cause every man to find according to [his] ways.

34:12  Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

34:13  Who visited the earth for him? And who set the whole world in order?

34:14  If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath,

34:15  all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

34:16  If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

34:17  Shall even he that hates judgment govern? And wilt thou condemn the Mighty One that is righteous?

34:18  [Is it fit] to say to the king, [Thou art of] Belial [and] to the princes, Ye [are] ungodly?

34:19  [How much less to him] who is not a respecter of the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all [are] the work of his hands.

34:20  In a moment they shall die, and the peoples shall be troubled at midnight and shall pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

34:21  For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps.

34:22  [There is] no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

34:23  For he will not lay upon man more [than that which is just]; that he should enter into judgment with God.

34:24  He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their stead.

34:25  Therefore, he shall cause their works to be notorious, when he shall overturn [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed.

34:26  He shall strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others

34:27  because thus they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways

34:28  so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.

34:29  When he gives rest, who then can make trouble? If he hides [his] face, who then can behold him? This applies to a nation and the same to a man,

34:30  that the hypocrite not reign, lest the people be ensnared.

34:31  For it is of God to say, I have forgiven, I will no longer destroy.

34:32  Teach me that which I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.

34:33  Will he, perchance finish his work by thee; whether thou refuse or whether thou choose, or by me? Speak what thou knowest.

34:34  The men of understanding will say as I [say], and the wise man will hearken unto me.

34:35  Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without prudence.

34:36  My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end, that there may be answers against wicked men.

34:37  For he added rebellion unto his sin, he claps [his hands] among us and multiplies his words against God.: