34:2 "Hear my words, you wise men; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
34:3 For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
34:4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.
34:5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
34:6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
34:7 What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
34:8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
34:9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'
34:10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
34:11 For the work of a man will he render to him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
34:12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
34:13 Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?
34:14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;
34:15 All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
34:16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.
34:17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--
34:18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!'
34:19 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.
34:20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.
34:21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings.
34:22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
34:23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, That he should go before God in judgment.
34:24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.
34:25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
34:26 He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
34:27 Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:
34:28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.
34:29 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:
34:30 That the godless man may not reign, That there be no one to ensnare the people.
34:31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
34:32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
34:33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
34:34 Men of understanding will tell me, Yes, every wise man who hears me:
34:35 'Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'
34:36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God."