Job 36
1 And Elihu adds and says:
Elihu also proceeded and sayde,
2 “Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
Suffer me a litle, and I will instruct thee: for I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.
3 I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
I will fetche my knowledge afarre off, and will attribute righteousnes vnto my Maker.
4 For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
For truely my wordes shall not be false, and he that is perfect in knowledge, speaketh with thee.
5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
Behold, the mighty God casteth away none that is mighty and valiant of courage.
6 He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
He mainteineth not the wicked, but he giueth iudgement to the afflicted.
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 withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but they are with Kings in ye throne, where he placeth them for euer: thus they are exalted.
8 And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,
9 Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
Then will he shewe them their worke and their sinnes, because they haue bene proude.
10 And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne from iniquity.
11 If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
If they obey and serue him, they shall end their dayes in prosperity, and their yeres in pleasures.
12 And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
But if they wil not obey, they shall passe by the sworde, and perish without knowledge.
13 And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
But the hypocrites of heart increase the wrath: for they call not when he bindeth them.
14 Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
Their soule dyeth in youth, and their life among the whoremongers.
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their eare in trouble.
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.
Euen so woulde he haue taken thee out of the streight place into a broade place and not shut vp beneath: and that which resteth vpon thy table, had bene full of fat.
17 And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
For Gods wrath is, least hee should take that away in thine abundance: for no multitude of giftes can deliuer thee.
19 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.
20 Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.
21 Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
Take thou heede: looke not to iniquitie: for thou hast chosen it rather then affliction.
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
Beholde, God exalteth by his power: what teacher is like him?
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
Who hath appointed to him his way? or who can say, Thou hast done wickedly?
24 Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.
25 All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
All men see it, and men beholde it afarre off.
26 Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
Beholde, God is excellent, and we knowe him not, neither can the nomber of his yeres bee searched out.
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
When he restraineth the droppes of water, the rayne powreth down by the vapour thereof,
28 Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man.
29 Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
Who can know the diuisions of ye clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
Beholde, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
31 For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
For thereby hee iudgeth the people, and giueth meate abundantly.
32 By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
He couereth the light with the clouds, and commandeth them to go against it.
33 His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
His companion sheweth him thereof, and there is anger in rising vp.
