Job 34:4
Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
In Context
3For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
5For Job hath said: 'I am righteous, and God hath taken away my right;
Cross References
Judges 19:30And it was so, that all that saw it said: 'Such a thing hath not happened nor been seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.'
Job 34:36Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Matthew Henry on Job 34:2-10
The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. 3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? 8 Which goeth in… Read the whole commentary →