Job 36
1 And Elihu proceeded and said,
Eliu also proceeded, and said:
2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for God.
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God’s behalf.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
4 For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.
5 Lo, God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:
God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.
6 He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.
But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.
He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.
8 And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.
10 And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.
11 If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
12 But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
13 But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:
Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
14 Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
15 But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.
16 Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.
Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.
17 But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
18 Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
20 Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
21 Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
22 Lo, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
23 Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou has wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.
25 All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.
All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
26 Lo, God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.
27 For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
28 Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
29 But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
30 Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
31 For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
32 [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.
In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
33 His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.
He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.
