Job 34

Moreover Elihu answered,

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

as the palate tastes food.

Let us know among ourselves what is good.

God has taken away my right:

My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

who drinks scorn like water,

and walks with wicked men?

that he should delight himself with God.’

from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

and cause every man to find according to his ways.

neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Or who has appointed him over the whole world?

if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

and man would turn again to dust.

Listen to the voice of my words.

Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

for they all are the work of his hands.

The mighty are taken away without a hand.

He sees all his goings.

where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

that he should go before God in judgment.

and sets others in their place.

He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

in the open sight of others;

and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

He heard the cry of the afflicted.

He is over a nation or a man alike,

that there be no one to ensnare the people.

‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Therefore speak what you know.

yes, every wise man who hears me:

His words are without wisdom.’

because of his answering like wicked men.

and multiplies his words against God.”