Job 34

¹And Elihu answereth and saith:

²Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.

³For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.

⁴Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

⁵For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

⁶Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow — without transgression.'

⁷Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

⁸And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.

⁹For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

¹⁰Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:

¹¹For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

¹²Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.

¹³Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?

¹⁴If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

¹⁵Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.