< Job 36 >
1 Elihu also proceeded, and said:
and to add: again Elihu and to say
2 Bear with me a little while, that I may show thee! For I have yet words in behalf of God.
to surround to/for me little and to explain you for still to/for god speech
3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, And assert the justice of my Maker.
to lift: bear knowledge my to/for from distant (and to/for to work me *LAB(h)*) to give: give righteousness
4 Truly my words shall not be false: A man of sound knowledge is before thee.
for truly not deception speech my unblemished knowledge with you
5 Behold, God is great, but despiseth not any; Great is he in strength of understanding.
look! God mighty and not to reject mighty strength heart
6 He suffereth not the wicked to prosper, But rendereth justice to the oppressed.
not to live wicked and justice afflicted to give: give
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous; But establisheth them for ever with kings on the throne, That they may be exalted.
not to dimish from righteous eye his and with king to/for throne and to dwell them to/for perpetuity and to exult
8 And if they be bound in fetters, And holden in the cords of affliction,
and if to bind in/on/with fetter to capture [emph?] in/on/with cord affliction
9 Then showeth he them their deeds, And how they have set him at defiance by their transgressions;
and to tell to/for them work their and transgression their for to prevail
10 He also openeth their ears to admonition, And commandeth them to return from iniquity.
and to reveal: uncover ear their to/for discipline: instruction and to say for to return: return [emph?] from evil: wickedness
11 If they obey and serve him, They spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
if to hear: hear and to serve: minister to end: finish day their in/on/with good and year their in/on/with pleasant
12 But if they obey not, they perish by the sword; They die in their own folly.
and if not to hear: hear in/on/with missile to pass and to die like/as without knowledge
13 The corrupt in heart treasure up wrath; They cry not to God, when he bindeth them.
and profane heart to set: make face: anger not to cry for to bind them
14 They die in their youth; They close their lives with the unclean.
to die in/on/with youth soul their and living thing their in/on/with male cult prostitute
15 But he delivereth the poor in their distress; He openeth their ears in affliction.
to rescue afflicted in/on/with affliction his and to reveal: uncover in/on/with oppression ear their
16 He will bring thee also from the jaws of distress To a broad place, where is no straitness; And the provision of thy table shall be full of fatness.
and also to incite you from lip: opening enemy breadth not constraint underneath: stand her and quietness table your to fill ashes
17 But if thou art full of the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice shall take hold of thee.
and judgment wicked to fill judgment and justice to grasp
18 For if wrath be with him, beware lest he take thee away by his stroke, So that a great ransom shall not save thee!
for rage lest to incite you in/on/with mockery and many ransom not to stretch you
19 Will he esteem thy riches? No! neither thy gold, nor all the abundance of thy wealth.
to arrange cry your not in/on/with distress and all power strength
20 Long not thou for that night To which nations are taken away from their place.
not to long for [the] night to/for to ascend: rise people underneath: stand them
21 Take heed, turn not thine eyes to iniquity! For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
to keep: careful not to turn to(wards) evil: wickedness for upon this to choose from affliction
22 Behold, God is exalted in his power: Who is a teacher like him?
look! God to exalt in/on/with strength his who? like him rain/teacher
23 Who hath prescribed to him his way? Or who can say to him, “Thou hast done wrong”?
who? to reckon: overseer upon him way: conduct his and who? to say to work injustice
24 Forget not to magnify his work, Which men celebrate with songs.
to remember for to grow great work his which to sing human
25 All mankind gaze upon it; Mortals behold it from afar.
all man to see in/on/with him human to look from distant
26 Behold, God is great; we cannot know him, Nor search out the number of his years.
look! God great and not to know number year his and not search
27 Lo! he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil rain from his vapor;
for to dimish drop water to refine rain to/for mist his
28 The clouds pour it down, And drop it upon man in abundance.
which to flow cloud to drip upon man many
29 Who can understand the spreading of his clouds, And the rattling of his pavilion?
also if: surely yes to understand spreading cloud shout booth his
30 Behold, he spreadeth around himself his light, And he clotheth himself with the depths of the sea.
look! to spread upon him light his and root [the] sea to cover
31 By these he punisheth nations, And by these he giveth food in abundance.
for in/on/with them to judge people to give: give food to/for to increase
32 His hands he covereth with lightning; He giveth it commandment against an enemy.
upon palm to cover light and to command upon her in/on/with to fall on
33 His thunder maketh him known; Yea, to the herds, as he ascendeth on high.
to tell upon him shouting his livestock also upon to ascend: rise