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34:1Then Elihu continued and said, Compare
34:2Hear my words, you wise men; / And you who know, give ear to me. Compare
34:3For the ear tries words / As the palate tastes food. Compare
34:4Let us choose for ourselves what is right; / Let us know among ourselves what is good. Compare
34:5For Job has said, I am righteous, / And God has taken away my right; Compare
34:6Should I lie against my right? / My arrow wound is incurable, though I am without transgression. Compare
34:7What man is like Job, / Who drinks up scoffing like water, Compare
34:8Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity / And walks with wicked men? Compare
34:9For he has said, It does not profit a man / To delight himself in God. Compare
34:10Therefore, you men of understanding, hear me: / Far be it from God that He would do evil, / And from the Almighty that He would commit iniquity. Compare
34:11For He will render a man's work to him / And will cause a man to find that which is according to his own way. Compare
34:12Indeed in all certainty God will not do evil, / And the Almighty will not pervert justice. Compare
34:13Who has ever put the earth in His charge? / Or who has ever set in order the whole world? Compare
34:14If He were to consider Himself only, / He would gather back to Himself His spirit and His breath; Compare
34:15All flesh would perish together, / And man would return to dust. Compare
34:16If then you have understanding, hear this; / Give ear to the voice of my words. Compare
34:17Shall one who hates justice govern? / And will you condemn the just and mighty One, Compare
34:18He who says to a king, You worthless one! / And to nobles, You wicked one! Compare
34:19He who does not respect the persons of princes, / Nor regard the rich man more than the poor, / For they are all the work of His hands? Compare
34:20In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night / The people are shaken, and they pass away; / And the mighty are taken away, but by no human hand. Compare
34:21For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, / And He sees all his steps. Compare
34:22There is no darkness and no shadow of death / Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Compare
34:23For He does not need to consider a man further, / That he should go to God in litigation. Compare
34:24He breaks mighty men in pieces without inquiry / And puts others in their stead. Compare
34:25Hence He knows their actions, / And He overturns them in the night so that they are crushed. Compare
34:26He strikes them as He would evil men, / In a place where all can see; Compare
34:27Because they turned aside from following after Him / And would not regard any of His ways, Compare
34:28So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him, / And He heard the cry of the afflicted. Compare
34:29When He is silent, who can condemn Him? / When He hides His face, who can behold Him? / He does so toward a nation and toward a man alike, Compare
34:30That no profane man would reign, that there would be no snares for the / people. Compare
34:31For has anyone ever said to God, / I have borne chastisement; I will offend no more; Compare
34:32What I do not see teach me; / If I have committed iniquity, I will do it no more? Compare
34:33Should He recompense to fit you, since you have rejected it? / For you must choose, and not I. / So speak what you know. Compare
34:34Men of understanding will say to me, / As well as the man of wisdom who hears me, Compare
34:35Job has spoken without knowledge, / And his words are without insight. Compare
34:36I wish that Job were tried to the limit / Because of his answering like evil men. Compare
34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin; / Among us he claps his hands / And multiplies his words against God. Compare

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