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.
Suffer me a little, and I will shew 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: one that 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 despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth 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 withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings upon the throne he setteth them for ever, 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 affliction;
9 Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
Then he sheweth 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 openeth also their ear to instruction, and commandeth 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 hearken not, 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 they that are godless in heart lay up anger: they cry not for help when he bindeth them.
14 Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
They die in youth, and their life [perisheth] among the unclean.
15 He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, and openeth 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 led thee away out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17 And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
18 Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
Because there is wrath, beware lest thou be led away by [thy] sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
19 Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
Will thy riches suffice, [that thou be] not in distress, or all the forces of [thy] strength?
20 Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Desire not 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, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: who is a teacher like unto him?
23 Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
24 Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
Remember that thou magnify his work, whereof men have sung.
25 All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth 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 know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
27 When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
For he draweth up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapour:
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 spreadeth his light around him; and he covereth the bottom of the sea.
31 For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
For by these he judgeth the peoples; he giveth meat in abundance.
32 By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
He covereth his hands with the lightning; and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
33 His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
The noise thereof telleth concerning him, the cattle also concerning [the storm] that cometh up.
