Job 34:1-37 LSV

[1] And Elihu answers and says: [2] “Hear, O wise men, my words, || And, O knowing ones, give ear to me. [3] For the ear tries words, || And the palate tastes to eat. [4] Let us choose judgment for ourselves, || Let us know among ourselves what [is] good. [5] For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right, [6] Against my right do I lie? My arrow [is] mortal—without transgression. [7] Who [is] a man like Job? He drinks scoffing like water, [8] And he has traveled for company || With workers of iniquity, || So as to go with men of wickedness. [9] For he has said, It does not profit a man || When he delights himself with God. [10] Therefore, O men of heart, listen to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, || And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness, [11] For He repays the work of man to him, || And according to the path of each He causes him to find. [12] Indeed, truly, God does not do wickedly, || And the Mighty does not pervert judgment. [13] Who has inspected for Himself the earth? And who has placed all the habitable world? [14] If He sets His heart on him, || [If] He gathers His Spirit and His breath to Himself, [15] All flesh expires together, || And man returns to dust. [16] And if [there is] understanding, hear this, || Give ear to the voice of my words. [17] Indeed, does one hating justice govern? Or do you condemn the Most Just? [18] Who has said to a king, Worthless, || To princes, Wicked? [19] That has not accepted the person of princes, || Nor has known the rich before the poor, || For all of them [are] a work of His hands. [20] [In] a moment they die, || And at midnight people shake, || And they pass away, || And they remove the mighty without hand. [21] For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, || And He sees all his steps. [22] There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there; [23] For He does not permit man anymore, || To go to God in judgment, [24] He breaks the mighty—no searching! And He appoints others in their stead. [25] Therefore He knows their works, || And He has overturned by night, || And they are bruised. [26] As wicked He has struck them, || In the place of beholders. [27] Because that against right || They have turned aside from after Him, || And have considered none of His ways, [28] To cause to come to Him || The cry of the poor, || And He hears the cry of the afflicted. [29] And He gives rest, and who makes wrong? And hides the face, and who beholds it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, || [It is] the same. [30] From the reigning of a profane man, || From the snares of a people; [31] For has any said to God: I have taken away, || I do not do corruptly, [32] Besides [that which] I see, You show me, || If I have done iniquity—I do not add? [33] Does He repay by you, that you have refused—That you choose, and not I? And what you have known, speak. [34] Let men of heart say to me, || And a wise man is listening to me: [35] Job—he does not speak with knowledge, || And his words [are] not with wisdom. [36] My Father! Let Job be tried—to victory, || Because of answers for men of iniquity, [37] For he adds to his sin, || He vomits transgression among us, || And multiplies his sayings to God.”