Job 34:1-12 ▼

1 And Elihu answers and says:

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

3 For the ear tries words, || And the palate tastes to eat.

4 Let us choose judgment for ourselves, || Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

5 For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,

6 Against my right do I lie? My arrow [is] mortal—without transgression.

7 Who [is] a man like Job? He drinks scoffing like water,

8 And he has traveled for company || With workers of iniquity, || So as to go with men of wickedness.

9 For he has said, It does not profit a man || When he delights himself with God.

10 Therefore, O men of heart, listen to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, || And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness,

11 For He repays the work of man to him, || And according to the path of each He causes him to find.

12 Indeed, truly, God does not do wickedly, || And the Mighty does not pervert judgment.