Job 34:1-12 ▼

1 Elihu answered:

2 |Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.

3 For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.

4 Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

5 For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

6 Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.'

7 What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

8 He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

9 For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'

10 |Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

11 For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

12 Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.