Job 34 — LSV

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