34:1 Then Elihu answered and said: 34:2 "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know; 34:3 for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food. 34:4 Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good. 34:5 For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right; 34:6 in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.' 34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water, 34:8 who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men 34:9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.' 34:10 "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong. 34:11 For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him. 34:12 Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice. 34:13 Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world 34:14 If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, 34:15 all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. 34:16 "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say. 34:17 Shall one who hates justice govern Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty, 34:18 who says to a king, 'Worthless one,' and to nobles, 'Wicked man,' 34:19 who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands 34:20 In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand. 34:21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. 34:22 There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves. 34:23 For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment. 34:24 He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place. 34:25 Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed. 34:26 He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see, 34:27 because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways, 34:28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted-- 34:29 When he is quiet, who can condemn When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man-- 34:30 that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people. 34:31 "For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more; 34:32 teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more' 34:33 Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know. 34:34 Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say: 34:35 'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.' 34:36 Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men. 34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God."