Job 34
1 and to answer Elihu and to say
Then Elihu continued:
2 to hear: hear wise speech my and to know to listen to/for me
“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
3 for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4 justice to choose to/for us to know between: among us what? pleasant
Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
5 for to say Job to justify and God to turn aside: remove justice my
For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
Would I lie about my case? 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 derision like water?
8 and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
9 for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
10 to/for so human heart to hear: hear to/for me forbid to/for God from wickedness and Almighty from injustice
Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
11 for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
12 also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
13 who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over 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 were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
15 to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
16 and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
If you have understanding, hear this; listen to my words.
17 also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,
18 to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You 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 is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all 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
They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
21 for eye his upon way: conduct man: anyone and all step his to see: see
For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
22 nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
23 for not upon man to set: consider still to/for to go: went to(wards) God in/on/with justice: judgement
For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
24 to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.
25 to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
26 underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,
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 Him and had no regard for any of His ways.
28 to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry 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
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
30 from to reign man profane from snare people
that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.
31 for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
32 beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
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
Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
34 human heart to say to/for me and great man wise to hear: hear to/for me
Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:
35 Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
36 oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
37 for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God
For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
