Job 36
1 And Elihu added and said: —
And Elihu adds and says:
2 Restrain thyself for me a little, and I will shew thee, that, yet—for GOD, there is justification,
“Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For, of a truth—not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee.
For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
5 Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;
Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
6 He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant;
He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
7 He will not withdraw—from a righteous one—his eyes, —but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.
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,
8 But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,
And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
9 Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions—that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;
Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
10 Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said—that they should turn from iniquity.
And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
11 If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;
If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
12 But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.
And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
13 Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.
And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
14 Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.
Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
15 He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover—in oppression—their ear.
He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
16 Yea he might even have allured thee—out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space—no narrowness there, —and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.
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.
17 But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold.
And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
18 Because there is wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.
Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
19 Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.
Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
20 Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.
Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
21 Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.
Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
22 Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?
Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
23 Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?
Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
24 Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;
Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
25 Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.
All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
26 Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!
Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
27 For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;
When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
28 With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.
Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
29 But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!
Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
30 Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.
Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
31 For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:
For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
32 Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:
By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
33 His rolling thunder telleth concerning him, —The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.
His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
