| 1 | And Elihu answereth and saith: |
| 2 | Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me. |
| 3 | For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat. |
| 4 | Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good. |
| 5 | For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, |
| 6 | Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow -- without transgression.` |
| 7 | Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, |
| 8 | And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. |
| 9 | For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.` |
| 10 | Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness: |
| 11 | For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find. |
| 12 | Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment. |
| 13 | Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world? |
| 14 | If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. |
| 15 | Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth. |
| 16 | And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words. |
| 17 | Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? |
| 18 | Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,` Unto princes -- `Wicked?` |
| 19 | That 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. |
| 20 | [In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand. |
| 21 | For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see. |
| 22 | There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there; |
| 23 | For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment, |
| 24 | He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead. |
| 25 | Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised. |
| 26 | As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders. |
| 27 | Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, |
| 28 | To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth. |
| 29 | And 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. |
| 30 | From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people; |
| 31 | For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly, |
| 32 | Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?` |
| 33 | By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak. |
| 34 | Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me. |
| 35 | Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom. |
| 36 | My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity, |
| 37 | For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God. |
