# Job 34 ## Job 34:1 - [KJV] Furthermore Elihu answered and said, - [ASV] Moreover Elihu answered and said, - [YLT] And Elihu answereth and saith: ### Notes on Job 34:1 - ## Job 34:2 - [KJV] Hear my words, O ye wise *men*; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. - [ASV] Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. - [YLT] Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me. ### Notes on Job 34:2 - ## Job 34:3 - [KJV] For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. - [ASV] For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food. - [YLT] For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat. ### Notes on Job 34:3 - ## Job 34:4 - [KJV] Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what *is* good. - [ASV] Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good. - [YLT] Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what *is* good. ### Notes on Job 34:4 - ## Job 34:5 - [KJV] For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. - [ASV] For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right: - [YLT] For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right, ### Notes on Job 34:5 - ## Job 34:6 - [KJV] Should I lie against my right? my wound *is* incurable without transgression. - [ASV] Notwithstanding my right I am *accounted* a liar; My wound is incurable, *though I am* without transgression. - [YLT] Against my right do I lie? Mortal *is* mine arrow -- without transgression.' ### Notes on Job 34:6 - ## Job 34:7 - [KJV] What man *is* like Job, *who* drinketh up scorning like water? - [ASV] What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water, - [YLT] Who *is* a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water, ### Notes on Job 34:7 - ## Job 34:8 - [KJV] Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. - [ASV] Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men? - [YLT] And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. ### Notes on Job 34:8 - ## Job 34:9 - [KJV] For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. - [ASV] For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God. - [YLT] For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.' ### Notes on Job 34:9 - ## Job 34:10 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And *from* the Mighty to do perverseness: ### Notes on Job 34:10 - ## Job 34:11 - [KJV] For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to *his* ways. - [ASV] For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways. - [YLT] For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find. ### Notes on Job 34:11 - ## Job 34:12 - [KJV] Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. - [ASV] Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice. - [YLT] Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment. ### Notes on Job 34:12 - ## Job 34:13 - [KJV] Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? - [ASV] Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world? - [YLT] Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world? ### Notes on Job 34:13 - ## Job 34:14 - [KJV] If he set his heart upon man, *if* he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; - [ASV] If he set his heart upon himself, *If* he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; - [YLT] If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. ### Notes on Job 34:14 - ## Job 34:15 - [KJV] All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. - [ASV] All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust. - [YLT] Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth. ### Notes on Job 34:15 - ## Job 34:16 - [KJV] If now *thou hast* understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words. - [ASV] If now *thou hast* understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words. - [YLT] And if *there is* understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words. ### Notes on Job 34:16 - ## Job 34:17 - [KJV] Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? - [ASV] Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous *and* mighty? - [YLT] Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? ### Notes on Job 34:17 - ## Job 34:18 - [KJV] *Is it fit* to say to a king, *Thou art* wicked? *and* to princes, *Ye are* ungodly? - [ASV] *Him* that saith to a king, *Thou art* vile, *Or* to nobles, *Ye are* wicked; - [YLT] Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?' ### Notes on Job 34:18 - ## Job 34:19 - [KJV] *How much less to him* that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all *are* the work of his hands. - [ASV] That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Job 34:19 - ## Job 34:20 - [KJV] In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. - [ASV] In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand. - [YLT] *In* a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand. ### Notes on Job 34:20 - ## Job 34:21 - [KJV] For his eyes *are* upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. - [ASV] For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings. - [YLT] For His eyes *are* on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see. ### Notes on Job 34:21 - ## Job 34:22 - [KJV] *There is* no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. - [ASV] There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. - [YLT] There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there; ### Notes on Job 34:22 - ## Job 34:23 - [KJV] For he will not lay upon man more *than right*; that he should enter into judgment with God. - [ASV] For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment. - [YLT] For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment, ### Notes on Job 34:23 - ## Job 34:24 - [KJV] He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. - [ASV] He breaketh in pieces mighty men *in ways* past finding out, And setteth others in their stead. - [YLT] He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead. ### Notes on Job 34:24 - ## Job 34:25 - [KJV] Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth *them* in the night, so that they are destroyed. - [ASV] Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. - [YLT] Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised. ### Notes on Job 34:25 - ## Job 34:26 - [KJV] He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; - [ASV] He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others; - [YLT] As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders. ### Notes on Job 34:26 - ## Job 34:27 - [KJV] Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: - [ASV] Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways: - [YLT] Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely, ### Notes on Job 34:27 - ## Job 34:28 - [KJV] So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. - [ASV] So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted. - [YLT] To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth. ### Notes on Job 34:28 - ## Job 34:29 - [KJV] When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth *his* face, who then can behold him? whether *it be done* against a nation, or against a man only: - [ASV] When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether *it be done* unto a nation, or unto a man: - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Job 34:29 - ## Job 34:30 - [KJV] That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. - [ASV] That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people. - [YLT] From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people; ### Notes on Job 34:30 - ## Job 34:31 - [KJV] Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne *chastisement*, I will not offend *any more*: - [ASV] For hath any said unto God, I have borne *chastisement*, I will not offend *any more*: - [YLT] For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly, ### Notes on Job 34:31 - ## Job 34:32 - [KJV] *That which* I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. - [ASV] That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more? - [YLT] Besides *that which* I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?' ### Notes on Job 34:32 - ## Job 34:33 - [KJV] *Should it be* according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. - [ASV] Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest. - [YLT] By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak. ### Notes on Job 34:33 - ## Job 34:34 - [KJV] Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. - [ASV] Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me: - [YLT] Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me. ### Notes on Job 34:34 - ## Job 34:35 - [KJV] Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words *were* without wisdom. - [ASV] Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom. - [YLT] Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words *are* not with wisdom. ### Notes on Job 34:35 - ## Job 34:36 - [KJV] My desire *is that* Job may be tried unto the end because of *his* answers for wicked men. - [ASV] Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men. - [YLT] My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity, ### Notes on Job 34:36 - ## Job 34:37 - [KJV] For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth *his hands* among us, and multiplieth his words against God. - [ASV] For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God. - [YLT] For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God. ### Notes on Job 34:37 -