< Job 34 >

1 Furthermore Elihu responded, and said: —
and to answer Elihu and to say
2 Hear, ye wise men, my words, and, ye who know, give ear unto me;
to hear: hear wise speech my and to know to listen to/for me
3 For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.
for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
4 What is right, let us choose for ourselves, Let us know, among ourselves, what is good;
justice to choose to/for us to know between: among us what? pleasant
5 For Job hath said—I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;
for to say Job to justify and God to turn aside: remove justice my
6 Concerning mine own right, shall I tell a falsehood? Incurable is my disease—not for any transgression.
upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
7 What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;
who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
8 And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.
and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
9 For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.
for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
10 Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me, —Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!
to/for so human heart to hear: hear to/for me forbid to/for God from wickedness and Almighty from injustice
11 For, what any son of earth doeth, he repayeth him, and, according to every man’s course, he causeth him to find.
for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
12 Nay, verily, GOD, will not condemn unjustly, —nor, the Almighty, pervert justice.
also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
13 Who set him in charge of the earth? Or who appointed [him] the whole world?
who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
14 If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.
if to set: make to(wards) him heart his spirit his and breath his to(wards) him to gather
15 All flesh together, would cease to breathe, and, the earth-born, unto dust, would return.
to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
16 If then [thou hast] understanding, hear this, Give thou ear to the teaching of my words: —
and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
17 Shall, the very hater of right, control? Or, the just—the mighty one, wilt thou condemn?
also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
18 Doth one say to a king, Abandoned one! Or, Lawless one! unto nobles?
to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
19 For he hath shewn no respect of persons unto princes, neither hath he recognised the rich rather than the poor? For, the work of his hands, are they all.
which not to lift: kindness face: kindness ruler and not to recognize rich to/for face: before poor for deed: work hand his all their
20 In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night, —A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;
moment to die and middle night to shake people and to pass and to turn aside: remove mighty: strong not in/on/with hand
21 For, his eyes, are on the ways of a man, and, all his footsteps, he beholdeth, —
for eye his upon way: conduct man: anyone and all step his to see: see
22 No darkness, and no death-shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.
nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
23 For, unto no man, doth he appoint a repetition, —in going unto GOD in judgment;
for not upon man to set: consider still to/for to go: went to(wards) God in/on/with justice: judgement
24 He shattereth mighty ones unsearchably, and setteth up others in their stead:
to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
25 Therefore, he observeth their works, —and overturneth [them] in a night, and they are crushed;
to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
26 In the place of lawless men, hath he chastised them, in presence of beholders.
underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
27 Forasmuch, as they turned from following him, and, none of his ways, did they teach;
which upon so to turn aside: turn aside from after him and all way: conduct his not be prudent
28 Causing to reach him the outcry of the poor, Yea, the outcry of the oppressed, he heareth.
to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
29 When, he, giveth quiet, who then shall condemn? And, when he hideth [his] face, who then shall sing of him? whether unto a nation or unto mankind altogether,
and he/she/it to quiet and who? be wicked and to hide face and who? to see him and upon nation and upon man unitedness
30 That impious men may not reign, nor be ensnarers of the people.
from to reign man profane from snare people
31 For, unto GOD, hath one [ever] said—I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;
for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
32 What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?
beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
33 According to thy mind, must he requite it, that thou hast refused? For, thou, must choose, and not, I, What then thou knowest, speak!
from from with you to complete her for to reject for you(m. s.) to choose and not I and what? to know to speak: promise
34 The men of mind, will say to me, yea any wise man hearkening unto me: —
human heart to say to/for me and great man wise to hear: hear to/for me
35 Job, without knowledge, doth speak, and, his words, are not with discretion.
Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
36 Would that Job might be tested to the uttermost, for replying with the men of iniquity:
oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
37 For he addeth—unto his sin—rebellion, In our midst, he clappeth his hands, and multiplieth his sayings against GOD.
for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God

< Job 34 >