1And Elihu answered and said: 2“Hear my words, wise men, and those who know, pay attention to me 3Because the ear tests words and the palate tastes food 4We will select a Judge for us and he will know what is beautiful between us 5You have said, Job, that you are innocent, for you said: ‘I am justified and God has turned my judgment against me!’ 6Who is the man who is destroyed without an offense? 7Who is a man like Job that would drink mockery like water? 8And he was a partner and a friend to workers of evil, walking with men who are sinners 9You said that a man is not just when he is a worshiper of God 10Because of this, men of heart, hear me; God forbid God that he would do evil and God forbid that he would commit sin! 11According to the works of a son of man he pays him, and a man finds according to his ways 12Truly God does no evil, neither does God pervert the way 13Who commanded the Earth and made all the world? 14If he turns his heart against it, his spirit and his soul are gathered to him 15All flesh ends as one, and a son of man returns to his dust 16And if you understand, hear these things and give ear to the voice of my words 17Whoever hates judgment is unjust, and if one is innocent, he is not justly condemned 18He who says evil about a King, a King of Rulers, a King of Governors 19Who will not accept the faces of Princes and will not accept the faces of the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands 20Suddenly they die, and in the middle of the night are consumed and are destroyed and they see The Almighty One, not in power 21Because his eyes are on all the ways of a man and he sees all his steps 22Without darkness and without shadows of death for the Servants of evil to hide themselves there 23Because again, a man was not appointed to walk with God in judgment 24For he has brought evil to many without limit, and we will live together in their place 25Because of this, he shall know them from their works, and he shall turn them away into the night 26And their works will be leveled under evil in the place of power 27For they turned away from after him, and they did not understand all his ways 28The prayer of the poor approaches before him, and the cry of the afflicted he hears 29And if he forgives, who is condemned, and if he turns his face, who is forgiving the people or a son of man together? 30Because a changeable man does not reign, or a sinner over the people 31Because God said: ‘I have forgiven; I do not destroy without sins’ 32Teach me if you have done evil 33I shall not again give you an answer, because you have sinned, for you are examined and not I; anything that you know, speak 34Men of heart will speak to me, and wise man will listen to me 35Job was not speaking in knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence 36Truly Job has been tested unto the limit, and he is not considered evil by men 37And if he adds foolishness to his sins among us, he will be commanded and he will bring his words before God The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Translated by Glenn David Bauscher Glenn David Bauscher Lulu Publishing Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing 3rd edition Copyright © 2019 |