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# Job 34

Job 34 is chapter 34 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 37 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Eliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice of God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 34 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. After proclaiming these things, Eliu now had this to say:
2. May the wise hear my words, and may the educated listen to me.
3. For the ear examines words, and the mouth discerns foods by the taste.
4. Let us choose judgment for ourselves, and let us consider among ourselves what is best.
5. For Job has said: “I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
6. For, within my judgment, there is a lie: my vehement barbs are without any sin.”
7. What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
8. who accompanies those who work iniquity, and who walks with impious men?
9. For he has said, “Man will not please God, even if he should travel with him.”
10. Therefore, prudent men, hear me: impiety is far from God, and iniquity is far from the Almighty.
11. For he will restore to man his works, and according to the ways of each, he will repay them.
12. For truly, God will not condemn in vain, nor will the Almighty repudiate judgment.
13. What other is established over the earth? Or whom has he placed over the world, which he made?
14. But, if he directs his heart towards him, he will draw his spirit and breath to himself.
15. All flesh will fail together, and man will return to ashes.
16. Therefore, if you have understanding, hear what is said, and heed the sound of my eloquence.
17. Is he that does not love judgment able to be corrected? And how can you so greatly condemn him who is just?
18. He says to the king, “You are an apostate.” He calls commanders impious.
19. He does not accept the reputation of leaders; nor does he recognize the tyrant as he contends against the poor. For all are the work of his hands.
20. They will die suddenly, and the people will be troubled in the middle of the night, but they will pass through it, and the violent will be taken away without a hand.
21. For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he examines all of their steps.
22. There is no darkness and no shadow of death, where those who work iniquity may be hidden.
23. For it is no longer within the power of man to enter into judgment with God.
24. He will break into many innumerable pieces, and he will cause others to stand up in their place.
25. For he knows their works, and, as a result, he will bring the night, and they will be crushed.
26. Just as the impious do, he has struck them in a place where they can be seen.
27. They, as if with great diligence, have withdrawn from him, and they refused to understand all his ways,
28. so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.
29. For, when he grants peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hides his face, who is there that can contemplate him, either among the nations, or among all men?
30. He causes a hypocritical man to reign because of the sins of the people.
31. Therefore, since I have been speaking about God, I will not prevent you from doing the same.
32. If I have erred, you may teach me; if I have spoken unfairly, I will add no more.
33. Does God require this of you because it is displeasing to you? For you were the first to speak, and not I. But if you know something better, speak.
34. Let men of understanding speak to me, and let a wise man listen to me.
35. But Job has been speaking foolishly, and his words contain unsound teaching.
36. My father, let Job be tested even to the end; may you not retreat from a man of iniquity.
37. For he adds blasphemy on top of his sins; nevertheless, let him be constrained to be among us, and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.

## Job 34 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Pronuntians itaque Eliu, etiam hæc locutus est:
2. Audite, sapientes, verba mea: et eruditi, auscultate me.
3. Auris enim verba probat, et guttur escas gustu dijudicat.
4. Judicium eligamus nobis, et inter nos videamus quid sit melius.
5. Quia dixit Job: Justus sum, et Deus subvertit judicium meum.
6. In judicando enim me mendacium est: violenta sagitta mea absque ullo peccato.
7. Quis est vir ut est Job, qui bibit subsannationem quasi aquam:
8. qui graditur cum operantibus iniquitatem, et ambulat cum viris impiis?
9. Dixit enim: Non placebit vir Deo, etiam si cucurrerit cum eo.
10. Ideo, viri cordati, audite me: absit a Deo impietas, et ab Omnipotente iniquitas.
11. Opus enim hominis reddet ei, et juxta vias singulorum restituet eis.
12. Vere enim Deus non condemnabit frustra, nec Omnipotens subvertet judicium.
13. Quem constituit alium super terram? aut quem posuit super orbem quem fabricatus est?
14. Si direxerit ad eum cor suum, spiritum illius et flatum ad se trahet.
15. Deficiet omnis caro simul, et homo in cinerem revertetur.
16. Si habes ergo intellectum, audi quod dicitur, et ausculta vocem eloquii mei:
17. numquid qui non amat judicium sanari potest? et quomodo tu eum qui justus est in tantum condemnas?
18. Qui dicit regi: Apostata; qui vocat duces impios;
19. qui non accipit personas principum, nec cognovit tyrannum cum disceptaret contra pauperem: opus enim manuum ejus sunt universi.
20. Subito morientur, et in media nocte turbabuntur populi: et pertransibunt, et auferent violentum absque manu.
21. Oculi enim ejus super vias hominum, et omnes gressus eorum considerat.
22. Non sunt tenebræ, et non est umbra mortis, ut abscondantur ibi qui operantur iniquitatem,
23. neque enim ultra in hominis potestate est, ut veniat ad Deum in judicium.
24. Conteret multos, et innumerabiles, et stare faciet alios pro eis.
25. Novit enim opera eorum, et idcirco inducet noctem, et conterentur.
26. Quasi impios percussit eos in loco videntium:
27. qui quasi de industria recesserunt ab eo, et omnes vias ejus intelligere noluerunt:
28. ut pervenire facerent ad eum clamorem egeni, et audiret vocem pauperum.
29. Ipso enim concedente pacem, quis est qui condemnet? ex quo absconderit vultum, quis est qui contempletur eum, et super gentes, et super omnes homines?
30. Qui regnare facit hominem hypocritam propter peccata populi.
31. Quia ergo ego locutus sum ad Deum, te quoque non prohibebo.
32. Si erravi, tu doce me; si iniquitatem locutus sum, ultra non addam.
33. Numquid a te Deus expetit eam, quia displicuit tibi? tu enim cœpisti loqui, et non ego: quod si quid nosti melius, loquere.
34. Viri intelligentes loquantur mihi, et vir sapiens audiat me.
35. Job autem stulte locutus est, et verba illius non sonant disciplinam.
36. Pater mi, probetur Job usque ad finem: ne desinas ab homine iniquitatis:
37. quia addit super peccata sua blasphemiam, inter nos interim constringatur: et tunc ad judicium provocet sermonibus suis Deum.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).