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| Job 34: (YLT) |
| 1) And Elihu answereth and saith: |
| 2) Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me. |
| 3) For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat. |
| 4) Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good. |
| 5) For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, |
| 6) Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow -- without transgression.' |
| 7) Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, |
| 8) And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. |
| 9) For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.' |
| 10) Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness: |
| 11) For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find. |
| 12) Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment. |
| 13) Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world? |
| 14) If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. |
| 15) Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth. |
| 16) And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words. |
| 17) Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? |
| 18) Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?' |
| 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. |
| 20) [In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand. |
| 21) For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see. |
| 22) There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there; |
| 23) For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment, |
| 24) He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead. |
| 25) Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised. |
| 26) As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders. |
| 27) Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, |
| 28) To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth. |
| 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. |
| 30) From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people; |
| 31) For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly, |
| 32) Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?' |
| 33) By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak. |
| 34) Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me. |
| 35) Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom. |
| 36) My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity, |
| 37) For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God. |