translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Moreover Elihu answered and said,


text: Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.


text: For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.


text: Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.


text: For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:


text: Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.


text: What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,


text: Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?


text: For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.


text: 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.


text: For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.


text: Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.


text: Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?


text: If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;


text: All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.


text: If now thou hast understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.


text: Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?-


text: Him that saith to a king, Thou art vile, Or to nobles, Ye are wicked;


text: That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.


text: In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.


text: For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.


text: There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.


text: For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.


text: He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.


text: Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.


text: He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;


text: Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:


text: So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.


text: 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:


text: That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.


text: For hath any said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:


text: That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?


text: Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.


text: Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:


text: Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.


text: Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.


text: For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.