YLT - Job - 34

34:1  And Elihu answereth and saith:

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

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

34:4  Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

34:6  Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow--without transgression.'

34:7  Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

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

34:9  For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34:18  Who hath said to a king--`Worthless,' Unto princes--`Wicked?'

34:19  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34:29  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.

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

34:31  For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

34:32  Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'

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

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

34:35  Job--not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.

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

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