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who keeps company with evildoers
    and travels with wicked men?
Did he not state that no one derives any benefit
    by being pleasing to God?

God Does Not Pervert Justice

10 “Therefore, listen to me like intelligent men.
    Far be it from God to do evil;[a]
    far be it from the Almighty to be unjust.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:10 Far be it from God to do evil: Elihu is answering a charge that God does evil, which Job in his frustration has intimated; for he has insisted that God is punishing him wrongfully and allowing evildoers to flourish (Job 24:1-12).