{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/job34.htm","path":"bib/jps/job34.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/job34.htm","text":"1 Moreover Elihu answered and said:\n2 Hear my words, ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.\n3 For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.\n4 Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.\n5 For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and G-d hath taken away my right;\n6 Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'\n7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?\n8 Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.\n9 For he hath said: 'It profiteth a man nothing that he should be in accord with G-d.'\n10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from G-d, that He should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity.\n11 For the work of a man will He requite unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.\n12 Yea, of a surety, G-d will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.\n13 Who gave Him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?\n14 If He set His heart upon man, if He gather unto Himself his spirit and his breath;\n15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.\n16 If now thou hast understanding, hear this; hearken to the voice of my words.\n17 Shall even one that hateth right govern? And wilt thou condemn Him that is just and mighty--\n18 Is it fit to say to a king: 'Thou art base'? Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'?--\n19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.\n20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.\n21 For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, and He seeth all his goings.\n22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.\n23 For He doth not appoint a time unto any man, when he should go before G-d in judgment.\n24 He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquisition, and setteth others in their stead.\n25 Therefore He taketh knowledge of their works; and He overturneth them in the night, so that they are crushed.\n26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;\n27 Because they turned aside from following Him, and would not have regard to any of His ways;\n28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him, and He heareth the cry of the afflicted.\n29 When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;\n30 That the godless man reign not, that there be none to ensnare the people.\n31 For hath any said unto G-d: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not;\n32 That which I see not teach Thou me; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?\n33 Shall His recompense be as thou wilt? For thou loathest it, so that thou must choose, and not I; therefore speak what thou knowest.\n34 Men of understanding will say unto me, yea, every wise man that heareth me:\n35 'Job speaketh without knowledge, and his words are without discernment.'\n36 Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.\n37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against G-d.","title":"Job 34","type":"page"}