Job 34:4
Let us choose for ourselves what is just: let us acknowledge between ourselves what is good.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
In Context
3For the ear proveth words, as the palate tasteth the food.
5For Job hath said, “I am righteous; and God hath taken away justice from me.
Cross References
Judges 19:30And it happened, that whoever saw it said, There hath no such deed been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day: reflect well on it, give advice, and speak.
Job 34:36Oh that Job may therefore be probed continually, in order to give answers against sinful 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 →