Job 36:1
And Elihu addeth and saith: --
Job 36:2
Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.
Job 36:3
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
Job 36:4
For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Job 36:5
Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.
Job 36:6
He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;
Job 36:7
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,
Job 36:8
And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
Job 36:9
Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
Job 36:10
And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.
Job 36:11
If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
Job 36:12
And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
Job 36:13
And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
Job 36:14
Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
Job 36:15
He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
Job 36:16
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.
Job 36:17
And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld--because of fury,
Job 36:18
Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
Job 36:19
Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
Job 36:20
Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
Job 36:21
Take heed--do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than on affliction.
Job 36:22
Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him--a teacher?
Job 36:23
Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'
Job 36:24
Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
Job 36:25
All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
Job 36:26
Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.
Job 36:27
When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
Job 36:28
Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
Job 36:29
Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
Job 36:30
Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,
Job 36:31
For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
Job 36:32
By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
Job 36:33
He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.