34:2 “Listen to my words, you wise men;
hear 1 me, you learned men. 2
34:3 For the ear assesses 3 words
as the mouth 4 tastes food.
34:4 Let us evaluate 5 for ourselves what is right; 6
let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
1 tn Heb “give ear to me.”
2 tn The Hebrew word means “the men who know,” and without a complement it means “to possess knowledge.”
3 tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”
4 tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.
5 sn Elihu means “choose after careful examination.”
6 tn The word is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) again, with the sense of what is right or just.