Job 34

¹Eliu therefore pronouncing spake these words also:

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

³For the ear proveth words, and the throat discerneth meats by the taste.

⁴Let us choose us judgment, and among us let us see what is the better.

⁵Because Job said: I am just, and God hath subverted my judgment.

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

⁷What man is there as is Job, that drinketh scorning as it were water?

⁸What goeth with them that work iniquity, and walketh with impious men?

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

¹⁰Therefore ye discreet men hear me, far from God be impiety, and iniquity from the Omnipotent.

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁶If then thou have understanding, hear that is said, and harken to the voice of my speech.

¹⁷Can he that loveth not judgment, be healed? And how doest thou so far condemn him that is just?

¹⁸That saith to the king, Apostata: that calleth dukes impious:

¹⁹Who accepteth not the persons of Princes: nor hath known the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

²⁰They shall suddenly die, and at mid-night peoples shall be troubled, & shall pass, & take away the violent without hand.

²¹For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

²²There is not darkness, & there is not shadow of death, that they may be hid there which work iniquity.

²³For it is no more in man's power to come to God into judgment.

²⁴He shall destroy many, & innumerable, & shall make other to stand for them.

²⁵For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night, and they shall be destroyed.

²⁶As impious men he hath strucken them in the place of them that see.

²⁷Who as it were of purpose have revolted from him, & would not understand all his ways:

²⁸That they might cause the cry of the needy man to come to him, & he hear the voice of the poor.

²⁹For he granting peace, who is there that can condemn? After he shall hide his countenance, who is there that may behold him, both upon nations, and upon all men?

³⁰Who maketh a man that is an hypocrite reign for the sins of the people.

³¹Therefore because I have spoken to God, thee also I will not prohibit.

³²If I have erred, teach thou me: If I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.

³³Doth God require it of thee, because it hath displeased thee? For thou beganst to speak, and not I: but if thou know any better thing, speak.

³⁴Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wiseman hear me.

³⁵But Job hath spoken foolishly, and his words sound not discipline.

³⁶O my father, let Job be proved even to the end: cease not from the man of iniquity.

³⁷Who addeth blasphemy upon his sins, let him be restrained in the mean time among us: and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.