Job 34 — YLT

34Verse 1And Elihu answereth and saith:^{Verse 2}Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.^{Verse 3}For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.^{Verse 4}Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.^{Verse 5}For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,^{Verse 6}Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow — without transgression.'^{Verse 7}Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,^{Verse 8}And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.^{Verse 9}For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'^{Verse 10}Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:^{Verse 11}For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.^{Verse 12}Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.^{Verse 13}Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?^{Verse 14}If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.^{Verse 15}Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.^{Verse 16}And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.^{Verse 17}Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?^{Verse 18}Who hath said to a king — 'Worthless,' Unto princes — 'Wicked?'^{Verse 19}That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands [are] all of them.^{Verse 20}[In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.^{Verse 21}For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.^{Verse 22}There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;^{Verse 23}For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,^{Verse 24}He breaketh the mighty — no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.^{Verse 25}Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.^{Verse 26}As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.^{Verse 27}Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,^{Verse 28}To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.^{Verse 29}And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth 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 unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,^{Verse 32}Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?'^{Verse 33}By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused — That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.^{Verse 34}Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.^{Verse 35}Job — not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.^{Verse 36}My Father! let Job be tried — unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,^{Verse 37}For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.