Job 36
1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
And Elihu adds and says:
2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
“Honor me a little, and I show you, That yet for God [are] words.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from far, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.
For my words [are] truly not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
6 He perserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
He does not revive the wicked, And appoints the judgment of the poor;
7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he does establish them for ever, and they are 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 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;
And if prisoners in chains They are captured with cords of affliction,
9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Then He declares to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
And He uncovers their ear for instruction, And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
If they hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
And if they do not listen, They pass away by the dart, And expire without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.
And the profane in heart set the face, They do not cry when He has bound them.
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
Their soul dies in youth, And their life among the defiled.
15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovers their ear in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no strictness; and that which should be set on your table should be 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 you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
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 you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
Lest He move you with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Do not desire the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.
Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, For you have fixed on this Rather than [on] affliction.
22 Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
Behold, God sits on high by His power, Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
23 Who has commanded with authority him his way? or who can say, You have wrought iniquity?
Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
24 Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
Remember that you magnify His work That men have beheld.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold it far off.
All men have looked on it, Man looks attentively from afar.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Behold, God [is] high, And we do not know the number of His years, Indeed, there [is] no searching.
27 For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
When He diminishes droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapor,
28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Which clouds drop, They distill on man abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Indeed, do [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
30 Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
Behold, He has spread His light over it, And He has covered the roots of the sea,
31 For by them judges he the people; he gives food in abundance.
For He judges peoples by them, He gives food in abundance.
32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.
By two palms He has covered the light, And lays a charge over it in meeting,
33 The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
His shout shows it, The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
