Job 34:1-12 ▼

1 And Elihu answered and said,

2 “Hear, O wise men, my words, and give ear to me, knowing ones.

3 For the ear shall test words, and the palate tastes to eat.

4 Let us choose for ourselves what is just; let us know among ourselves what is good.

5 For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, and God has turned aside my justice.

6 And over my justice should I lie? Mortal is my arrow, without transgression.’

7 Who is a man like Job, drinking up derision like the water,

8 and he travels in company with workers of iniquity, and in walking with men of wickedness?

9 For he has said, ‘Nothing does it profit a man that he should delight in God.’

10 Therefore, O men of heart, listen to me. Far be it to God from wickedness, and Shaddai from injustice.

11 For the work of man, he repays to him; and according to the way of a man, He causes him to find it.

12 Yes, surely God does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.