Job 34

¹Furthermore Elihu answered and said,🔗🔍
²Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.🔗🔍
³For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.🔗🔍
⁴Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.🔗🔍
⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.🔗🔍
⁶Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.🔗🔍
⁷What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?🔗🔍
⁸Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.🔗🔍
⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.🔗🔍
¹⁰Therefore 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.🔗🔍
¹¹For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.🔗🔍
¹²Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.🔗🔍
¹³Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?🔗🔍
¹⁴If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;🔗🔍
¹⁵All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.🔗🔍
¹⁶If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.🔗🔍
¹⁷Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?🔗🔍
¹⁸Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?🔗🔍
¹⁹How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.🔗🔍
²⁰In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.🔗🔍
²¹For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.🔗🔍
²²There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.🔗🔍
²³For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.🔗🔍
²⁴He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.🔗🔍
²⁵Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.🔗🔍
²⁶He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;🔗🔍
²⁷Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:🔗🔍
²⁸So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.🔗🔍
²⁹When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:🔗🔍
³⁰That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.🔗🔍
³¹Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:🔗🔍
³²That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.🔗🔍
³³Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.🔗🔍
³⁴Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.🔗🔍
³⁵Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.🔗🔍
³⁶My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.🔗🔍
³⁷For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.🔗🔍