Job 34:30
Good News Translation
There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

New Revised Standard Version
so that the godless should not reign, or those who ensnare the people.

Contemporary English Version
But still, he punishes rulers who abuse their people.

New American Bible
Let an impious man not rule, nor those who ensnare their people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people.

Job 34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

1 Kings 12:28-30 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

2 Kings 21:9 But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Hosea 13:11 I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

2 Thessalonians 2:4-11 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. . . .

Revelation 13:3,4,11-14 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast. . . .

Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
29For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men? 30Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people.31Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn.…
Cross References
Job 5:15
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

Job 20:5
That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Job 34:17
Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just?

Job 34:29
For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?

Job 34:31
Seeing then I have spoken of God, I will not hinder thee in thy turn.

Proverbs 29:2
When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.

Job 34:29
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