Job 36
1 And Elihu adds and says:
Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 “Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.
3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my maker.
4 For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
(For truly my words are not false.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
7 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,
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
8 And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,
9 Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10 And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.
14 Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
They die in youth, and their life perishes among the unclean.
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
16 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.
Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
17 And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
19 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?
20 Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?
24 Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
Remember that thou magnify his work, of which men have sung.
25 All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.
26 Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,
28 Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
29 Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
30 Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
Behold, he spreads his light around him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
31 For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance.
32 By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.
33 His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.
