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Job 34
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
2Give ear, you wise, to my words; and you who have knowledge, give attention to me;
2Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
3For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
3For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
4Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.
4Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what <FI>is<Fi> good.
5For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
5For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
6Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.
6Against my right do I lie? Mortal <FI>is<Fi> mine arrow--without transgression.'
7What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
7Who <FI>is<Fi> a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
8And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?
8And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
9For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
9For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
10Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.
10Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And <FI>from<Fi> the Mighty to do perverseness:
11For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
11For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
12Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
12Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
13Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?
13Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
14If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,
14If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
15Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
16If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.
16And if <FI>there is<Fi> understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
17How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?
17Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
18He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;
18Who hath said to a king--`Worthless,' Unto princes--`Wicked?'
19Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
19That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands <FI>are<Fi> all of them.
20Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.
20<FI> In<Fi> a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
21For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
21For His eyes <FI>are<Fi> on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
22There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
22There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
23For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
23For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
24He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
24He breaketh the mighty--no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
25For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.
25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
26The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.
26As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
27Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
27Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
28So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
28To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
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29And 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, <FI>It is<Fi> the same.
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33By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused--That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
34Men of knowledge, and all wise men, hearing me, will say,
34Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
35Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.
35Job--not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words <FI>are<Fi> not with wisdom.