< Job 34 >
1 and to answer Elihu and to say
And Elihu answereth and saith:
2 to hear: hear wise speech my and to know to listen to/for me
Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
3 for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
4 justice to choose to/for us to know between: among us what? pleasant
Judgment let us choose for ourselves, 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 have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
6 upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow — without transgression.'
7 who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
8 and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
9 for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth 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, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:
11 for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
12 also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
13 who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
14 if to set: make to(wards) him heart his spirit his and breath his to(wards) him to gather
If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
15 to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
16 and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
And if [there is] 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
Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
18 to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
Who hath said to a king — 'Worthless,' Unto princes — '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
That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands [are] 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
[In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without 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 each, And all his steps He doth see.
22 nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
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 suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
24 to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
He breaketh the mighty — no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
25 to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
26 underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
27 which upon so to turn aside: turn aside from after him and all way: conduct his not be prudent
Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
28 to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
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
And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, [It is] the same.
30 from to reign man profane from snare people
From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
31 for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
32 beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?'
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
By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused — That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
34 human heart to say to/for me and great man wise to hear: hear to/for me
Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
35 Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
Job — not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.
36 oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
My Father! let Job be tried — unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
37 for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God
For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.