< Job 34 >

1 And Elihu answereth and saith:
and to answer Elihu and to say
2 Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
to hear: hear wise speech my and to know to listen to/for me
3 For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
for ear speech to test and palate to perceive to/for to eat
4 Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
justice to choose to/for us to know between: among us what? pleasant
5 For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
for to say Job to justify and God to turn aside: remove justice my
6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow — without transgression.'
upon justice my to lie be incurable arrow my without transgression
7 Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
who? great man like/as Job to drink derision like/as water
8 And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
and to journey to/for company with to work evil: wickedness and to/for to go: walk with human wickedness
9 For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
for to say not be useful great man in/on/with to accept he with God
10 Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:
to/for so human heart to hear: hear to/for me forbid to/for God from wickedness and Almighty from injustice
11 For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
for work man to complete to/for him and like/as way man to find him
12 Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
also truly God not be wicked and Almighty not to pervert justice
13 Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
who? to reckon: overseer upon him land: country/planet [to] and who? to set: put world all her
14 If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
if to set: make to(wards) him heart his spirit his and breath his to(wards) him to gather
15 Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
to die all flesh together and man upon dust to return: return
16 And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
and if understanding to hear: hear [emph?] this to listen [emph?] to/for voice: message speech my
17 Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
also to hate justice to saddle/tie and if: surely no righteous mighty be wicked
18 Who hath said to a king — 'Worthless,' Unto princes — 'Wicked?'
to say to/for king Belial: worthless wicked to(wards) noble
19 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.
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
20 [In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
moment to die and middle night to shake people and to pass and to turn aside: remove mighty: strong not in/on/with hand
21 For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
for eye his upon way: conduct man: anyone and all step his to see: see
22 There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
nothing darkness and nothing shadow to/for to hide there to work evil: wickedness
23 For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
for not upon man to set: consider still to/for to go: went to(wards) God in/on/with justice: judgement
24 He breaketh the mighty — no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
to shatter mighty not search and to stand: stand another underneath: instead them
25 Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
to/for so to recognize work their and to overturn night and to crush
26 As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
underneath: because of wicked to slap them in/on/with place to see: see
27 Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
which upon so to turn aside: turn aside from after him and all way: conduct his not be prudent
28 To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
to/for to come (in): come upon him cry poor and cry afflicted to hear: hear
29 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.
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
30 From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
from to reign man profane from snare people
31 For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
for to(wards) God to say to lift: bear not to destroy
32 Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?'
beside to see you(m. s.) to show me if injustice to work not to add: again
33 By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused — That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
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
34 Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
human heart to say to/for me and great man wise to hear: hear to/for me
35 Job — not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.
Job not in/on/with knowledge to speak: speak and word his not in/on/with be prudent
36 My Father! let Job be tried — unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
oh that! to test Job till perpetuity upon turn in/on/with human evil: wickedness
37 For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.
for to add upon sin his transgression between us to slap and to multiply word his to/for God

< Job 34 >