34:1 Elihu answered:
34:2 “Listen to my words, you wise men;
hear
34:3 For the ear assesses
as the mouth
34:4 Let us evaluate
let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
34:5 For Job says, ‘I am innocent,
but God turns away my right.
34:6 Concerning my right, should I lie?
My wound
although I am without transgression.’
34:7 What man is like Job,
who
34:8 He goes about
he goes along
34:9 For he says, ‘It does not profit a man
when he makes his delight with God.’
34:10 “Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from
from the Almighty to do evil.
34:11 For he repays a person for his work,
and according to the conduct of a person,
he causes the consequences to find him.
34:12 Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly,
and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
34:13 Who entrusted
And who put him over
34:14 If God
and gather in his spirit and his breath,
34:15 all flesh would perish together
and human beings would return to dust.
34:16 “If you have
hear what I have to say.
34:17 Do you really think
that one who hates justice can govern?
And will you declare guilty
the supremely righteous
34:18 who says to a king,
and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,’
34:19 who shows no partiality to princes,
and does not take note of
because all of them are the work of his hands?
34:20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night,
people
The mighty are removed effortlessly.
34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,
he observes all a person’s
34:22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness,
where evildoers can hide themselves.
34:23 For he does not still consider a person,
that he should come before God in judgment.
34:24 He shatters the great without inquiry,
and sets up others in their place.
34:25 Therefore, he knows their deeds,
he overthrows them
and they are crushed.
34:26 He strikes them for their wickedness,
in a place where people can see,
34:27 because they have turned away from following him,
and have not understood
34:28 so that they caused
to come before him,
so that he hears
34:29 But if God
If he hides his face, then who can see him?
Yet
34:30 so that the godless man should not rule,
and not lay snares for the people.
34:31 “Has anyone said to God,
‘I have endured chastisement,
but I will not act wrongly any more.
34:32 Teach me what I cannot see.
If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
34:33 Is it your opinion
because you reject this?
But you must choose, and not I,
so tell us what you know.
34:34 Men of understanding say to me –
any wise man listening to me says –
34:35 that
and his words are without understanding.
34:36 But
because his answers are like those of wicked men.
34:37 For he adds transgression
in our midst he claps his hands,
and multiplies his words against God.”