< 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 unto me, ye that have knowledge.
3 for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth 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 know among ourselves what is good!
5 for to say Job to justify and God to turn aside: remove justice my
For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:
6 upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
7 who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
What man is like Job? he drinketh 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
And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
9 for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself 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 hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!
11 for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to [his] way.
12 also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
Yea, surely, God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment.
13 who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath 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 only thought of himself, [and] gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,
15 to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.
16 and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words!
17 also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?
18 to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, 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
[How then to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the 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
In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong 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 man, and he seeth all his steps.
22 nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, 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 doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.
24 to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead;
25 to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth [them] in the night, and they are crushed.
26 underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
He striketh 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 have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;
28 to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth 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 giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth [his] face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike;
30 from to reign man profane from snare people
That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.
31 for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
For hath he said unto God, I bear [chastisement], I will not offend;
32 beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so 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 he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused [his judgment]; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest.
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, and a wise man who heareth me:
35 Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.
36 oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of [his] answers after the manner of evil men!
37 for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God
For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.