Job 34
Job 34:1 Then Elihu continued, and said:
Job 34:2 Hear my words, wise ones, and listen to me, knowing ones.
Job 34:3 Doesn’t the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
Job 34:4 Let us judge for ourselves what is right; let us decide together what is good.
Job 34:5 Because Job has declared, “I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
Job 34:6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.”
Job 34:7 What healthy man is like Job? He drinks derision like water.
Job 34:8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
Job 34:9 Because he has said, “A healthy man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”
Job 34:10 Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. It is impossible for God to do wrong and for the Almighty to act unjustly.
Job 34:11 Because he repays a person according to his deeds, and he gives him what his conduct deserves.
Job 34:12 It is also true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
Job 34:13 Who gave him authority over the land? Who put him in charge of the continents?[1]
Job 34:14 If he put his mind to it and withdrew the breath and breathing he gave,
Job 34:15 every living thing would expire together, and Adam would return to the dust.
Job 34:16 If you have insight, hear this; listen to what I have to say.
Job 34:17 Could one who hates justice govern the world? Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,
Job 34:18 who says to a king, “Worthless man!” and to nobles, “Wicked men!”?
Job 34:19 God is not partial to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
Job 34:20 They die suddenly in the middle of the night; people shudder, then pass away. Even the mighty are removed without effort.
Job 34:21 For his eyes watch over a man’s ways, and he observes all his steps.
Job 34:22 There is no darkness, no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide.
Job 34:23 God does not need to examine a person further, so that one should approach him in court.
Job 34:24 He shatters the mighty without an investigation and sets others in their place.
Job 34:25 Therefore, he recognizes their deeds and overthrows them by night, and they are crushed.
Job 34:26 In full view of the public, he strikes them for their wickedness,
Job 34:27 because they turned aside from following him and did not understand any of his ways
Job 34:28 but caused the poor to cry out to him, and he heard the outcry of the needy.
Job 34:29 But when God is silent, who can declare him guilty? When he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he watches over both individuals and nations,
Job 34:30 so that godless men should not rule or ensnare the people.
Job 34:31 Suppose someone says to God, “I have endured my punishment; I will no longer act wickedly.
Job 34:32 Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I won’t do it again.”
Job 34:33 Should God repay you on your terms when you have rejected his? You must choose, not I! So, declare what you know.
Job 34:34 Reasonable men will say to me, along with the wise healthy men who hear me,
Job 34:35 “Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.”
Job 34:36 If only Job were tested to the limit, because his answers are like those of wicked men.
Job 34:37 Because he adds rebellion to his sin; he scornfully claps in our presence, while multiplying his words against God.
[1] תֵּבֵל = continents.
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