Job 34:2-4

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.

[34:2]  ¹ tn Heb “give ear to me.”

[34:2]  ² tn The Hebrew word means “the men who know,” and without a complement it means “to possess knowledge.”

[34:3]  ³ tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”

[34:3]  ⁴ tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.

[34:4]  ⁵ sn Elihu means “choose after careful examination.”

[34:4]  ⁶ tn The word is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) again, with the sense of what is right or just.