LITV - Job - 34

34:1  And Elihu answered and said:

34:2  O wise men, hear my words; and you who know, listen to me;

34:3  for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

34:4  Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

34:6  should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, yet I am without rebellion.

34:7  What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;

34:8  who goes in company with those who work iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

34:9  For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.

34:10  So, O man of heart, listen to me; far be it from God to do wickedness; and the Almighty, to do evilly.

34:11  For He repays man's work to him; and according to a man's day, He causes him to find.

34:12  Yea, surely God will not do evilly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice.

34:13  Who has given the earth as in deposit with Him? Or who has laid the whole world?

34:14  If He sets His heart on him, if He gathers his spirit and his breath to Himself,

34:15  all flesh shall perish together, and man shall return to dust.

34:16  But if you have understanding, hear this; listen to the sound of my words:

34:17  Shall one who hates justice restrain it ? Or will you condemn a righteous, mighty one;

34:18  who says to a king, O worthless one; to nobles, O evil one?

34:19  How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor; for all of them are the work of His hands.

34:20  In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight; yea, they pass away, and the mighty will be taken without a hand.

34:21  For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.

34:22  There is no darkness nor shadow of death, to hide there those who work iniquity.

34:23  For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment.

34:24  He will break mighty men in pieces without inquiry, and make stand others in their place.

34:25  So He knows their works; and He overturns in the night, so that they are crushed.

34:26  He strikes them for evil deeds in the place of the spectators,

34:27  for so they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways so as

34:28  to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him. For He hears the cry of the afflicted.

34:29  And He gives rest; who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? Even it may be against a nation and a man together,

34:30  from the reigning of ungodly men, from being snares for the people.

34:31  For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?

34:32  Besides what I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will not do it again.

34:33  Must He repay you because you rejected it ? For you must choose, and not I; therefore, speak what you know.

34:34  Men of heart will say to me, and a wise man who hears me will say ,

34:35  Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words are not with insight.

34:36  Would that Job may be tried to the end, because his answers are like men of iniquity.

34:37  For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.