| 1 | And Elihu proceeded and said, |
| 2 | Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God. |
| 3 | I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator. |
| 4 | For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee. |
| 5 | Lo, �God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding: |
| 6 | He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted. |
| 7 | He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted. |
| 8 | And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction, |
| 9 | Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased. |
| 10 | And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
| 11 | If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
| 12 | But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge. |
| 13 | But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them: |
| 14 | Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean. |
| 15 | But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression. |
| 16 | Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness. |
| 17 | But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. |
| 18 | Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee. |
| 19 | Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength! |
| 20 | Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place. |
| 21 | Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. |
| 22 | Lo, �God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he? |
| 23 | Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness? |
| 24 | Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate. |
| 25 | All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off. |
| 26 | Lo, �God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. |
| 27 | For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth, |
| 28 | Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly. |
| 29 | But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion? |
| 30 | Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea. |
| 31 | For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance. |
| 32 | [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike. |
| 33 | His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming. |