1 - Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 - Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; 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 that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5 - Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 - He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted their right.
7 - He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
8 - And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;
9 - Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10 - He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11 - If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
12 - But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
13 - But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.
14 - They die in youth, And their lifeperisheth among the unclean.
15 - He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
16 - Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
17 - But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take holdon thee.
18 - For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
19 - Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces ofthystrength?
20 - Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
21 - Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22 - Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?
23 - Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
24 - Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.
25 - All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
26 - Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
27 - For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
28 - Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
29 - Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
30 - Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
31 - For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
32 - He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
33 - The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerningthe stormthat cometh up.
