Job 36

¹ And Elihu addeth and saith: -- ² Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words. ³ I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness. ⁴ For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee. ⁵ Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart. ⁶ He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth; ⁷ He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high, ⁸ And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction, ⁹ Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty, ¹⁰ And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity. ¹¹ If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness. ¹² And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge. ¹³ And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them. ¹⁴ Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled. ¹⁵ He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear. ¹⁶ And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness. ¹⁷ And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury, ¹⁸ Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside. ¹⁹ Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power. ²⁰ Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead. ²¹ Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction. ²² Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher? ²³ Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?' ²⁴ Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld. ²⁵ All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar. ²⁶ Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching. ²⁷ When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour, ²⁸ Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly. ²⁹ Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle? ³⁰ Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered, ³¹ For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance. ³² By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting, ³³ He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.