KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 34
1 Elihu accuses Job for charging Jehovah with injustice. 10 Jehovah's omnipotence cannot be unjust. 31 Man must humble himself to Jehovah.
1¶ And Elihu answered and said:
2O wise men, hear my words; and you who know, give ear to me;
3for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
4Let us choose judgment for ourselves; let us know among ourselves what is good.
5For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has turned away my right;
6should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, without transgression.
7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;
8who goes in company with those who work iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
9For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.
10¶ Therefore, O man of heart, listen to me; far be it from God to do wrong, and the Almighty, to do injustice.
11For He repays man's work to him; and according to a man's way, He causes him to find.
12Yea, surely God will not do wickedness, and not will the Almighty pervert justice.
13Who with Him has watched over the earth? Or who has laid out the whole world?
14If He sets His heart on him, if He gathers his spirit and his breath to Himself,
15all flesh shall perish together, and man shall return to dust.
16¶ But if you have understanding, hear this; listen to the sound of my words:
17Shall one who hates justice restrain it? Or will you condemn a righteous, mighty one;
18who says to a king, O worthlessness; to nobles, O wicked one?
19He who does not lift up the face of rulers, and does not regard the rich one before the poor one; for all of them are the work of His hands.
20In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight; yea, they pass away, and the mighty one will be turned aside with not a hand.
21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.
22There is no darkness and no death-shade to hide there those who work iniquity.
23For He does not appoint on man any more to go before God in judgment.
24He will break mighty men without a search, and make stand others in their place.
25So He knows their works; and He overturns in the night, and they are crushed.
26He strikes them for their wicked deeds in the place of the ones who see,
27for so they turned aside from following Him, and they did not wisely consider all His ways,
28to cause the cry of the poor one to come to Him. For He hears the cry of the afflicted ones.
29And He gives rest, and who can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? Even it may be against a nation and a man together,
30from the reigning of godless men, from being snares for the people.
31¶ For has any said to God, I have taken up; I will not pervert?
32Besides that which I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will not do it again.
33Must He repay you because you refused it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore, speak what you know.
34Men of heart will say to me, and a wise man who hears me will say,
35Job has not spoken with knowledge, and his words are not with insight.
36Would that Job may be tried to the end, because his answers are like men of iniquity.
37For he adds transgression to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.
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