{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/34","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:12:57.905Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":34,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":33,"nextChapter":35,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":37},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Moreover Elihu answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear my words, ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good!"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For Job hath said, I am righteous, and God hath taken away my judgment:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to his way."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Yea, surely, God acteth not wickedly, and the Almighty perverteth not judgment."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath disposed the whole world?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If he only thought of himself, and gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If now thou hast understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"In a moment they die, even at midnight the people are convulsed and pass away; and the strong are taken away without hand."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquiry, and setteth others in their stead;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth them in the night, and they are crushed."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"When he giveth quietness, who then will disturb? and when he hideth his face, who shall behold him? and this towards a nation, or towards a man alike;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For hath he said unto God, I bear chastisement, I will not offend;"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Shall he recompense according to thy mind? for thou hast refused his judgment; for thou so choosest, and not I; speak then what thou knowest."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of his answers after the manner of evil men!"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 34 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 34](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/34)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/34 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}