341And Elihu answereth and saith:+2Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.+3For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.+4Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what is good.+5For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,+6Against my right do I lie? Mortal is mine arrow--without transgression.'+7Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,+8And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.+9For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'+10Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:+11For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.+12Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.+13Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?+14If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.+15Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.+16And if there is understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.+17Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?+18Who hath said to a king--`Worthless,' Unto princes--`Wicked?'+19That 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.+20In a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.+21For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.+22There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;+23For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,+24He breaketh the mighty--no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.+25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.+26As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.+27Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,+28To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.+29And 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.+30From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;+31For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,+32Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done--I do not add?'+33By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused--That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.+34Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.+35Job--not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words are not with wisdom.+36My Father! let Job be tried--unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,+37For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.+
Young's Literal Translation
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