Job 36

1Eliu also proceeded, and said:

1And Elihu proceeded and said,

2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God's behalf.

2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words forGod.

3I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.

4For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.

4For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.

5God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

5Lo,God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:

6But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

6He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.

7He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.

8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

8And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,

9He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.

9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

10He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

10And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

11If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

11If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

12But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

12But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.

13Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

13But thegodless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

14Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.

14Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

15He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

15But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.

16Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

16Even 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.

17Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.

17But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

18Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

18Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

19Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.

19Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!

20Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.

20Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

21Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.

21Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

22Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.

22Lo,God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

23Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?

23Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

24Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.

24Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.

25All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.

25All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.

26Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

26Lo,God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

27For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

28Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

28Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.

29If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

29But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?

30And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

30Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

31For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.

31For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.

32In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.

32[His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

33He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.

33His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.