# Job 34 [[Job-33|← Job 33]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-35|Job 35 →]] *** ###### v1 Moreover Elihu answered, ###### v2 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. ###### v3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food. ###### v4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. ###### v5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right: ###### v6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.' ###### v7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, ###### v8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men? ###### v9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.' ###### v10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. ###### v11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. ###### v12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice. ###### v13 Who put him in charge of the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world? ###### v14 If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, ###### v15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust. ###### v16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words. ###### v17 Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?-- ###### v18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'? ###### v19 He doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. ###### v20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. ###### v21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings. ###### v22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ###### v23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment. ###### v24 He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place. ###### v25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed. ###### v26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others; ###### v27 because they turned away from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways, ###### v28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted. ###### v29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike, ###### v30 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people. ###### v31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. ###### v32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'? ###### v33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know. ###### v34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me: ###### v35 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.' ###### v36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men. ###### v37 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God." *** [[Job-33|← Job 33]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-35|Job 35 →]]