Job 34

¹Moreover Elihu answered and said,

²Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

³For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.

⁴Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

⁶Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

⁷What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,

⁸Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?

⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

¹⁰Therefore 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.

¹¹For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.

¹²Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

¹³Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

¹⁴If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.