Job 34
1 and to answer Elihu and to say
Moreover Elihu answered,
2 to hear: hear wise speech my and to know to listen to/for me
"Hear my words, you sages. Give ear to me, you 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, God has taken away my right:
6 upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
7 who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
8 and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
Who goes in 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 himself with 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, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from Shaddai, that he should commit iniquity.
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
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will Shaddai pervert justice.
13 who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has 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 set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
15 to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
16 and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.
17 also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—
18 to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
Who says to a king, 'Vile.' or 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
Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, 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. The mighty are taken away without a 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. 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 evildoers 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 doesn't need to consider a man further, 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 place.
25 to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. 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 wouldn't pay attention to 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. 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? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
30 from to reign man profane from snare people
that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.
31 for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but 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 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 you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak 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 tell 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. His words are without wisdom.'
36 oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
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."
