Jó 36

¹ Elihu also proceeded, and said,

² Allow me a little, and I will show you; For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

³ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

⁴ For truly my words are not false: One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

⁵ Look, God is mighty, and does not despise any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.

⁶ He does not preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted [their] right.

⁷ He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous: But with kings on the throne He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

⁸ And if they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions;

⁹ Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁰ He opens also their ear to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.

¹¹ If they listen and serve [him], They will spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

¹² But if they don't listen, they will perish by the sword, And they will die without knowledge.

¹³ But those who are godless in heart lay up anger: They don't cry for help when he binds them.

¹⁴ They die in youth, And their life [perishes] among the homosexuals.

¹⁵ He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.

¹⁶ Yes, he would have allured you out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

¹⁷ But you are full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on you].

¹⁸ For beware that wrath doesn't stir you up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

¹⁹ Will your cry avail, [that you are] not in distress, Or all the forces of [your] strength?

²⁰ Do not desire the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

²¹ Take heed, do not regard iniquity: For this you have chosen rather than affliction.

²² Look, God does loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like him?

²³ Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have wrought unrighteousness?

²⁴ Remember that you magnify his work, Of which men have sung.

²⁵ All of man have looked on it; Common man watches it far off.

²⁶ Look, God is great, and we don't know him; The number of his years is unsearchable.

²⁷ For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,

²⁸ Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

²⁹ Yes, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

³⁰ Look, he spreads his light around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea.

³¹ For by these he judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.

³² He covers his hands with the lightning, And gives it a charge that it strikes the mark.

³³ The noise of it tells concerning him, The cattle also [tell] concerning [the storm] that comes up.