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The Book of Job
Chapter 34
American Standard Version| Jb 34:1 | Moreover Elihu answered and said, |
| Jb 34:2 | Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. |
| Jb 34:3 | For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food. |
| Jb 34:4 | Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good. |
| Jb 34:5 | For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right: |
| Jb 34:6 | Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression. |
| Jb 34:7 | What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water, |
| Jb 34:8 | Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men? |
| Jb 34:9 | For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God. |
| Jb 34:10 | Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. |
| Jb 34:11 | For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways. |
| Jb 34:12 | Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice. |
| Jb 34:13 | Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world? |
| Jb 34:14 | If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; |
| Jb 34:15 | All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust. |
| Jb 34:16 | If now thou hast understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words. |
| Jb 34:17 | Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?- |
| Jb 34:18 | Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile, Or to nobles, Ye are wicked; |
| Jb 34:19 | That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands. |
| Jb 34:20 | In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand. |
| Jb 34:21 | For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings. |
| Jb 34:22 | There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. |
| Jb 34:23 | For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment. |
| Jb 34:24 | He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead. |
| Jb 34:25 | Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. |
| Jb 34:26 | He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others; |
| Jb 34:27 | Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways: |
| Jb 34:28 | So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted. |
| Jb 34:29 | When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man: |
| Jb 34:30 | That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people. |
| Jb 34:31 | For hath any said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: |
| Jb 34:32 | That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more? |
| Jb 34:33 | Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest. |
| Jb 34:34 | Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me: |
| Jb 34:35 | Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom. |
| Jb 34:36 | Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men. |
| Jb 34:37 | For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God. |