Job 34

1Moreover Elihu answered and said,● 2Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.● 3For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.● 4Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.● 5For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:● 6Notwithstanding my right I am `accounted' a liar; My wound is incurable, `though I am' without transgression.● 7What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,● 8Who 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 will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.● 12Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.● 13Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?● 14If he set his heart upon himself, `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 one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous `and' mighty?-● 18`Him' that saith to a king, `Thou art' vile, `Or' to nobles, `Ye are' wicked;● 19That respecteth 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 they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.● 21For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.● 22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.● 23For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.● 24He breaketh in pieces mighty men `in ways' past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.● 25Therefore he taketh knowledge of 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 aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:● 28So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.● 29When 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:● 30That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.● 31For hath any 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 it no more?● 33Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.● 34Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:● 35Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.● 36Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.● 37For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.●