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
“You [three] men who [think that you] [SAR] are very wise, hear me; listen to what I am saying, you men who [say that you] know so much.
3 for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
When we [SYN] hear what other people [like you] say, we [RHQ] think carefully about what they say [to determine what is good and what is bad], like we [SYN] taste food [to determine what is good].
4 justice to choose to/for us to know between: among us what? pleasant
We need to decide [who is saying] what is right and to determine among ourselves what is good/best.
5 for to say Job to justify and God to turn aside: remove justice my
Job has said, ‘I am innocent, but God has refused to judge me fairly/justly.
6 upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
Even though I have always done what is right, he is lying about me. Even though I have not done what is wrong, he has caused me to suffer, and I will certainly die.’
7 who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
(Is there any person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water?/There is no person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water.) [RHQ]
8 and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
He habitually associates with people who do what is evil and spends time with wicked people.
9 for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
He has said, ‘It is useless for people to try to please God.’
10 to/for so human heart to hear: hear to/for me forbid to/for God from wickedness and Almighty from injustice
“So, you men who [claim that you] understand everything, listen to me! Almighty God would never consider doing anything that is wicked or wrong [DOU]!
11 for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
He (pays back/punishes) people for what they have done; he gives them what they deserve for the way that they have conducted their lives.
12 also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
Truly, Almighty God never does what is wicked; he always [LIT] does what is fair/just.
13 who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
The authority that he has to rule everything on the earth, no one [RHQ] gave it to him; no one [RHQ] put him in control of the whole world. [He has always had that authority].
14 if to set: make to(wards) him heart his spirit his and breath his to(wards) him to gather
If he would take his spirit back to himself,
15 to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
everyone would die [immediately], and their corpses would soon become dirt again.
16 and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
“So, [Job], if [you say that you] understand everything, listen to what I am saying.
17 also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
God could certainly not [RHQ] govern the world if he hated doing what is fair/just. So, will you condemn God, who is righteous and powerful, [saying that what he has done is wrong]?
18 to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
He tells [some] kings that they are worthless, and he says to [some] officials that they 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
He does not favor rulers [more than he favors others]; he does not favor rich people more than poor people, because he created all of them.
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
People [often] die suddenly; he strikes them at midnight and they die; he even gets rid of mighty people without the help of any humans [SYN].
21 for eye his upon way: conduct man: anyone and all step his to see: see
“He sees [MTY] everything that people do; [when we walk, ] he watches every step that we take.
22 nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
There is no gloom or darkness [DOU] that is so dark that sinners can hide [from him] in that darkness.
23 for not upon man to set: consider still to/for to go: went to(wards) God in/on/with justice: judgement
God does not [need to] set a time when we will stand in front of him in order that he may judge us. [He can judge us whenever he wants to].
24 to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
He destroys mighty people without [needing to] investigate [what they have done], and he appoints others to take their places.
25 to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
Because he [already] knows what they have done, he removes them at night and gets rid of them.
26 underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
Where [many] people can see it, he strikes/punishes them because of the wicked things that they have done;
27 which upon so to turn aside: turn aside from after him and all way: conduct his not be prudent
he strikes them because they turned away from doing what he wanted them to do and did not pay attention to any of his commands.
28 to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
They [mistreated] the poor people, with the result that those poor people cried out to God [for help], and he heard those afflicted people when they cried out [to him].
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 if God decides to do nothing [to punish wicked people], no one can criticize/condemn him. If a godless/wicked man rules a nation, a man who tricks/deceives the people,
30 from to reign man profane from snare people
and if [God] hides his face [with the result that he does not see that ruler or punish him], no one will be able to prevent that ruler [from doing those things].
31 for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
“Job, have you or anyone else ever said to God, ‘I have been punished [for my sins], and I will not sin any more;
32 beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
so teach/show me what [sins I have committed]; if I have done anything that is evil, I will not do it any 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
[Job, ] you object to what God has done to you, but do you think that he will do what you want him to do? It is you who must choose [what you say to God], not I; so tell me what you are thinking about this.
34 human heart to say to/for me and great man wise to hear: hear to/for me
“People who have good sense, those who are wise and who listen to what I say, will say to me,
35 Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
‘Job is speaking ignorantly; what he says is nonsense.’
36 oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
I think that Job should be taken to a court and (put on trial/judged), because he answers [us his friends] like wicked men would answer.
37 for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God
To add to the [other] sins that he has committed, he is rebelling [against God]; he shows us that he does not respect God [IDM], making long speeches [saying that God has punished him unjustly].”
