Job 36
1 And Elihu adds and says:
Eliu also proceeded, and said:
2 “Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God’s behalf.
3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
4 For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.
6 He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
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 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 prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
9 Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.
10 And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.
11 If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
12 And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
13 And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
14 Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.
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.
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 And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
19 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
20 Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
21 Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou has wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.
25 All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
All men see him, every one beholdeth 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, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
28 Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
29 Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
30 Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
31 For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
32 By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
33 His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.
