Job 34 (NET)

Job 34:1¹Elihu answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:2²“Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:3³For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:4⁴Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:5⁵For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:6⁶Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:7⁷Who is there like Job, who drinks derision like water?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:8⁸He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:9⁹For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:10¹⁰“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:11¹¹For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:12¹²Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:13¹³Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:14¹⁴If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:15¹⁵all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:16¹⁶“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:17¹⁷Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely Righteous One,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:18¹⁸who says to a king, ‘Worthless man,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:19¹⁹who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:20²⁰In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:21²¹For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:22²²There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:23²³For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:24²⁴He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:25²⁵Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:26²⁶He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:27²⁷because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:28²⁸so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:29²⁹But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:30³⁰so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:31³¹“Has anyone said to God, ‘I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:32³²teach me what I cannot see; if I have done evil, I will do so no more’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:33³³Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:34³⁴Men of understanding say to me— any wise man listening to me says—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:35³⁵that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:36³⁶But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 34:37³⁷For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s