Job 34:1-9

Elihu Vindicates God’s Justice

¹Then Elihu continued and said,

2“Hear my words, you wise men,

And listen to me, you who understand.

3“For the ear tests words

As the palate tastes food.

4“Let us choose for ourselves what is right;

Let us understand among ourselves what is good.

5“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,

But God has taken away my right;

6Should I lie about my right?

My wound is incurable, though I am without wrongdoing.’

7“What man is like Job,

Who drinks up derision like water,

8Who goes in company with the workers of injustice,

And walks with wicked people?

9“For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man

When he becomes friends with God.’