Job 34:1–11

Elihu Asserts God’s Justice

34 Then Elihu answered and said:

2  “Hear my words, you wise men,

and give ear to me, you who know;

3  for gthe ear tests words

as the palate tastes food.

4  Let us choose hwhat is right;

let us know among ourselves what is good.

5  For Job has said, ‘I am iin the right,

and jGod has taken away my right;

6  in spite of my right I am counted a liar;

my wound is incurable, though I am kwithout transgression.’

7  What man is like Job,

who ldrinks up scoffing like water,

8  who travels in company with evildoers

and walks mwith wicked men?

9  For nhe has said, ‘It profits a man nothing

that he should take delight in God.’

10  “Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding:

far be it from God that he should odo wickedness,

and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

11  For according to pthe work of a man he will repay him,

and qaccording to his ways he will make it befall him.