Job 34, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -Then Elihu continued:
2 -“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
3 -For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4 -Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
5 -For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 -Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7 -What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
8 -He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
9 -For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
10 -Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
11 -For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
12 -Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
13 -Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?
14 -If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
15 -all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
16 -If you have understanding, hear this; listen to my words.
17 -Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,
18 -who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’
19 -who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
20 -They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
21 -For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
22 -There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
23 -For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
24 -He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.
25 -Therefore, He recognizes their deeds; He overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
26 -He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,
27 -because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.
28 -They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
29 -But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
30 -that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.
31 -Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.
32 -Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
33 -Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
34 -Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:
35 -‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
36 -If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
37 -For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
(Berean Standard Bible)
