34:1 Elihu answered:
34:2 “Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.
34:3 For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
34:4 Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
34:5 For Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right.
34:6 Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
34:8 He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.
34:9 For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
34:10 “Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.
34:11 For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.
34:12 Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
34:13 Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?
34:14 If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
34:15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
34:16 “If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.