jps - 34

jps@Job:34:1 @ Moreover Elihu answered and said:

jps@Job:34:2 @ Hear my words, ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

jps@Job:34:3 @ For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.

jps@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

jps@Job:34:5 @ For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right;

jps@Job:34:6 @ Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

jps@Job:34:7 @ What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

jps@Job:34:8 @ Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

jps@Job:34:9 @ For he hath said: 'It profiteth a man nothing that he should be in accord with God.'

jps@Job:34:10 @ Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that He should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity.

jps@Job:34:11 @ For the work of a man will He requite unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

jps@Job:34:12 @ Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

jps@Job:34:13 @ Who gave Him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

jps@Job:34:14 @ If He set His heart upon man, if He gather unto Himself his spirit and his breath;

jps@Job:34:15 @ All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.

jps@Job:34:16 @ If now thou hast understanding, hear this; hearken to the voice of my words.

jps@Job:34:17 @ Shall even one that hateth right govern? And wilt thou condemn Him that is just and mighty--

jps@Job:34:18 @ Is it fit to say to a king: 'Thou art base'? Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'?--

jps@Job:34:19 @ That respecteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.

jps@Job:34:20 @ In a moment they die, even at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.

jps@Job:34:21 @ For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, and He seeth all his goings.

jps@Job:34:22 @ There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

jps@Job:34:23 @ For He doth not appoint a time unto any man, when he should go before God in judgment.

jps@Job:34:24 @ He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquisition, and setteth others in their stead.

jps@Job:34:25 @ Therefore He taketh knowledge of their works; and He overturneth them in the night, so that they are crushed.

jps@Job:34:26 @ He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

jps@Job:34:27 @ Because they turned aside from following Him, and would not have regard to any of His ways;

jps@Job:34:28 @ So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him, and He heareth the cry of the afflicted.

jps@Job:34:29 @ When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;

jps@Job:34:30 @ That the godless man reign not, that there be none to ensnare the people.

jps@Job:34:31 @ For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not;

jps@Job:34:32 @ That which I see not teach Thou me; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

jps@Job:34:33 @ Shall His recompense be as thou wilt? For thou loathest it, so that thou must choose, and not I; therefore speak what thou knowest.

jps@Job:34:34 @ Men of understanding will say unto me, yea, every wise man that heareth me:

jps@Job:34:35 @ 'Job speaketh without knowledge, and his words are without discernment.'

jps@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

jps@Job:34:37 @ For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

Job 34