Job 34
1 and to answer Elihu and to say
Moreover Elihu answered, and said,
2 to hear: hear wise speech my and to know to listen to/for me
Hear my words, ye wise men, and give ear to me, ye who have knowledge.
3 for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
4 justice to choose to/for us to know between: among us what? pleasant
Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 for to say Job to justify and God to turn aside: remove justice my
For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.
6 upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
7 who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water,
8 and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
saying, I have not sinned, nor committed unrighteousness, nor had fellowship with workers of iniquity to go with the profane.
9 for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, whereas visitation is to him from the Lord.
10 to/for so human heart to hear: hear to/for me forbid to/for God from wickedness and Almighty from injustice
Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and pervert righteousness before the Almighty.
11 for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
12 also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
Yea, certainly God will not do wrong. Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13 who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has disposed the whole world?
14 if to set: make to(wards) him heart his spirit his and breath his to(wards) him to gather
If he sets his heart upon himself, if he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself,
15 to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.
16 and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
If now thou be understanding, hear this. Hearken to the voice of words.
17 also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
Behold thou him who hates lawlessness, and who destroys evil men, who is forever righteousness,
18 to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
him who says to a king, Thou are vile, to ranking men, Ye are wicked,
19 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
who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.
20 moment to die and middle night to shake people and to pass and to turn aside: remove mighty: strong not in/on/with hand
In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.
21 for eye his upon way: conduct man: anyone and all step his to see: see
For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.
22 nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 for not upon man to set: consider still to/for to go: went to(wards) God in/on/with justice: judgement
For he needs no further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment.
24 to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their stead.
25 to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
Therefore he takes knowledge of their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
26 underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others
27 which upon so to turn aside: turn aside from after him and all way: conduct his not be prudent
because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways,
28 to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.
29 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
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? It is the same whether to a nation, or to a man,
30 from to reign man profane from snare people
that the profane man not reign, that there be none to ensnare the people.
31 for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more.
32 beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
Teach thou me that which I do not see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
33 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
Shall his recompense be as thou desire, that thou refuse it? For thou must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what thou know.
34 human heart to say to/for me and great man wise to hear: hear to/for me
Men of understanding will say to me, yes, every wise man who hears me,
35 Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.
36 oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
But surely not. Learn thou Job not to still give an answer like the foolish,
37 for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God
so that we may not add to our sins, and lawlessness will be reckoned against us, speaking many words before the Lord.
