< Job 36 >
1 and to add: again Elihu and to say
Elihu continued on and said,
2 to surround to/for me little and to explain you for still to/for god speech
“Permit me to speak a little longer, and I will show you some things because I have a little more to say in defense of God.
3 to lift: bear knowledge my to/for from distant (and to/for to work me *LAB(h)*) to give: give righteousness
I will obtain my knowledge from far off; I will acknowledge that righteousness belongs to my Maker.
4 for truly not deception speech my unblemished knowledge with you
For indeed, my words will not be false; someone who is mature in knowledge is with you.
5 look! God mighty and not to reject mighty strength heart
See, God is mighty, and despises no one; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 not to live wicked and justice afflicted to give: give
He does not preserve the life of wicked people but instead does what is right for those who suffer.
7 not to dimish from righteous eye his and with king to/for throne and to dwell them to/for perpetuity and to exult
He does not withdraw his eyes from righteous people but instead sets them on thrones like kings forever, and they are lifted up.
8 and if to bind in/on/with fetter to capture [emph?] in/on/with cord affliction
If they are bound in chains and trapped in cords of suffering,
9 and to tell to/for them work their and transgression their for to prevail
then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions and their pride.
10 and to reveal: uncover ear their to/for discipline: instruction and to say for to return: return [emph?] from evil: wickedness
He also opens their ears to his instruction, and commands them to turn back from iniquity.
11 if to hear: hear and to serve: minister to end: finish day their in/on/with good and year their in/on/with pleasant
If they listen to him and worship him, they will spend their days in prosperity, their years in contentment.
12 and if not to hear: hear in/on/with missile to pass and to die like/as without knowledge
However, if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die because they have no knowledge.
13 and profane heart to set: make face: anger not to cry for to bind them
Those who are godless in heart store up their anger; they do not cry out for help even when God ties them up.
14 to die in/on/with youth soul their and living thing their in/on/with male cult prostitute
They die in their youth; their lives end among the cultic prostitutes.
15 to rescue afflicted in/on/with affliction his and to reveal: uncover in/on/with oppression ear their
God rescues afflicted people by means of their afflictions; he opens their ears by means of their oppression.
16 and also to incite you from lip: opening enemy breadth not constraint underneath: stand her and quietness table your to fill ashes
Indeed, he would like to draw you out of distress into a broad place where there is no hardship and where your table would be set with food full of fatness.
17 and judgment wicked to fill judgment and justice to grasp
But you are full of judgment on wicked people; judgment and justice have laid hold of you.
18 for rage lest to incite you in/on/with mockery and many ransom not to stretch you
Do not let your anger entice you to mockery, or the greatness of a ransom to turn you aside.
19 to arrange cry your not in/on/with distress and all power strength
Can your wealth benefit you, so that you will not be in distress, or can all the force of your strength help you?
20 not to long for [the] night to/for to ascend: rise people underneath: stand them
Do not desire the night, to commit sin against others, when peoples are cut off in their place.
21 to keep: careful not to turn to(wards) evil: wickedness for upon this to choose from affliction
Be careful that you do not turn to sin because you are being tested by suffering so that you will stay away from sinning.
22 look! God to exalt in/on/with strength his who? like him rain/teacher
See, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
23 who? to reckon: overseer upon him way: conduct his and who? to say to work injustice
Who has ever instructed him about his way? Who can ever say to him, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'
24 to remember for to grow great work his which to sing human
Remember to praise his deeds, of which people have sung.
25 all man to see in/on/with him human to look from distant
All people have looked on those deeds, but they see those deeds only from far away.
26 look! God great and not to know number year his and not search
See, God is great, but we do not understand him well; the number of his years is incalculable.
27 for to dimish drop water to refine rain to/for mist his
For he draws up the drops of water that he distills as rain from his vapor,
28 which to flow cloud to drip upon man many
which the clouds pour down and drop in abundance on mankind.
29 also if: surely yes to understand spreading cloud shout booth his
Indeed, can anyone understand the extensive spread of the clouds and the thunder from his hut?
30 look! to spread upon him light his and root [the] sea to cover
See, he spreads his lightning around him and covers the roots of the sea.
31 for in/on/with them to judge people to give: give food to/for to increase
In this way he judges the peoples and gives food in abundance.
32 upon palm to cover light and to command upon her in/on/with to fall on
He fills his hands with the lightning until he commands it to strike its mark.
33 to tell upon him shouting his livestock also upon to ascend: rise
Its thunder warns of the storm, the cattle can also hear it is coming.