Job 34

¹And Eliu continued his discourse, and said:

²Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye learned, hearken to me:

³For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste.

⁴Let us choose to us judgment, and let us see among ourselves what is the best.

⁵For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment.

⁶For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.

⁷What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

⁸Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh with wicked men?

⁹For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

¹⁰Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from god be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.

¹¹For he will render to a man his work, and according to the ways of every one he will reward them.

¹²For in very deed God will not condemn without cause, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

¹³What other hath he appointed over the earth? or whom hath he set over the world which he made?

¹⁴If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself.

¹⁵All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.