Job 34 — ASV

34Verse 1Moreover Elihu answered and said,^{Verse 2}Hear my words, ye wise men;
And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
^{Verse 3}For the ear trieth words,
As the palate tasteth food.
^{Verse 4}Let us choose for us that which is right:
Let us know among ourselves what is good.
^{Verse 5}For Job hath said, I am righteous,
And God hath taken away my right:
^{Verse 6}Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar;
My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
^{Verse 7}What man is like Job,
Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
^{Verse 8}Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,
And walketh with wicked men?
^{Verse 9}For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing
That he should delight himself with God.^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 11}For the work of a man will he render unto him,
And cause every man to find according to his ways.
^{Verse 12}Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly,
Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
^{Verse 13}Who gave him a charge over the earth?
Or who hath disposed the whole world?
^{Verse 14}If he set his heart upon himself,
If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
^{Verse 15}All flesh shall perish together,
And man shall turn again unto dust.^{Verse 16}If now thou hast understanding, hear this:
Hearken to the voice of my words.
^{Verse 17}Shall even one that hateth justice govern?
And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?—
^{Verse 18}Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile,
Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;
^{Verse 19}That respecteth not the persons of princes,
Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor;
For they all are the work of his hands.
^{Verse 20}In a moment they die, even at midnight;
The people are shaken and pass away,
And the mighty are taken away without hand.^{Verse 21}For his eyes are upon the ways of a man,
And he seeth all his goings.
^{Verse 22}There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
^{Verse 23}For he needeth not further to consider a man,
That he should go before God in judgment.
^{Verse 24}He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out,
And setteth others in their stead.
^{Verse 25}Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works;
And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
^{Verse 26}He striketh them as wicked men
In the open sight of others;
^{Verse 27}Because they turned aside from following him,
And would not have regard in any of his ways:
^{Verse 28}So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him,
And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
^{Verse 29}When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn?
And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him?
Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man:
^{Verse 30}That the godless man reign not,
That there be none to ensnare the people.^{Verse 31}For hath any said unto God,I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
^{Verse 32}That which I see not teach thou me:
If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
^{Verse 33}Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it?
For thou must choose, and not I:
Therefore speak what thou knowest.
^{Verse 34}Men of understanding will say unto me,
Yea, every wise man that heareth me:
^{Verse 35}Job speaketh without knowledge,
And his words are without wisdom.
^{Verse 36}Would that Job were tried unto the end,
Because of his answering like wicked men.
^{Verse 37}For he addeth rebellion unto his sin;
He clappeth his hands among us,
And multiplieth his words against God.