Job 36 · איוב

Elihu also proceeded, and said,

Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; for I have yet words to speak on God’s behalf.

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

For truly my words are not false: one that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength of wisdom.

He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives to the poor their right.

He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings on the throne he establishes them for ever, and they are exalted.

And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;

then he declares to them their work, and their transgressions when they behave arrogantly.

He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they do not cry when he binds them.

They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.

He delivers the poor by means of his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.

He has even removed thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness.

But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

But beware of wrath, lest he take thee away with his clenched fist: nor let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Behold, God is exalted by his power: who teaches like him?

Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

Behold, God is great, and we know it not, nor can the number of his years be searched out.

When he draws up small drops of water, they are distilled into a stream of rain;

which the clouds do drop and pour down on man abundantly.

Can anyone understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Behold, he spreads his light about him, and covers the roots of the sea.

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

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it where it shall strike.

The noise of the storm tells of it; yea the cattle also of the rising tempest.