Job 34:1 (ASV)
Moreover Elihu answered and said,

Job 34:2 (ASV)
Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

Job 34:3 (ASV)
For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.

Job 34:4 (ASV)
Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Job 34:5 (ASV)
For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

Job 34:6 (ASV)
Notwithstanding my right I am `accounted' a liar; My wound is incurable, `though I am' without transgression.

Job 34:7 (ASV)
What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

Job 34:8 (ASV)
Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?

Job 34:9 (ASV)
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

Job 34:10 (ASV)
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.

Job 34:11 (ASV)
For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.

Job 34:12 (ASV)
Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Job 34:13 (ASV)
Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

Job 34:14 (ASV)
If he set his heart upon himself, `If' he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

Job 34:15 (ASV)
All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

Job 34:16 (ASV)
If now `thou hast' understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.

Job 34:17 (ASV)
Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous `and' mighty?-

Job 34:18 (ASV)
`Him' that saith to a king, `Thou art' vile, `Or' to nobles, `Ye are' wicked;

Job 34:19 (ASV)
That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.

Job 34:20 (ASV)
In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

Job 34:21 (ASV)
For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.

Job 34:22 (ASV)
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Job 34:23 (ASV)
For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

Job 34:24 (ASV)
He breaketh in pieces mighty men `in ways' past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.

Job 34:25 (ASV)
Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

Job 34:26 (ASV)
He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

Job 34:27 (ASV)
Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:

Job 34:28 (ASV)
So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Job 34:29 (ASV)
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:

Job 34:30 (ASV)
That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.

Job 34:31 (ASV)
For hath any said unto God, I have borne `chastisement', I will not offend `any more':

Job 34:32 (ASV)
That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

Job 34:33 (ASV)
Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.

Job 34:34 (ASV)
Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:

Job 34:35 (ASV)
Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

Job 34:36 (ASV)
Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

Job 34:37 (ASV)
For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.
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