Job 36
1 And Elius further continued, and said,
And Elihu adds and says:
2 Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach you: for there is yet speech in me.
“Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
3 Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words.
For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
5 But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,
Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
6 he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.
He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
7 He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but [they shall be] with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.
He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, And [from] kings on the throne, And causes them to sit forever, and they are high,
8 But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.
And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
9 And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.
Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
10 But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.
And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
11 If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor.
If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
12 But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.
And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
13 And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.
And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
14 Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers [of death].
Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
15 Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.
He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
16 And he has also enticed you out of the mouth of the enemy:
And He also moved you from a narrow place [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, And the sitting beyond of your table has been full of fatness.
17 [there is] a deep gulf [and] a rushing stream beneath it, and your table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;
And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
18 but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.
Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
19 Let not [your] mind willingly turn you aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.
Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
20 And draw not forth all the mighty [men] by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.
Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
21 But take heed lest you do that which is wrong: for of this you has made choice because of poverty.
Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
22 Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?
Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
23 And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?
Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
24 Remember that his works are great [beyond] those which men have attempted.
Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
25 Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.
All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
26 Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know [him]: the number of his years is even infinite.
Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
27 And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.
When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
28 The ancient [heavens] shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. [Yet] by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in [your] body.
Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
29 And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle;
Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
30 behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
31 For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.
For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
32 He has hidden the light in [his] hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing [cloud].
By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
33 The Lord will declare concerning this [to] his friend: [but there is] a portion also for unrighteousness.
His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
