1Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2Bear with me a little, and I will show you; For I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4For truly my words are not false: One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.
6He does not preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.
7He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous: But with kings on the throne He sets them forever, and they are exalted.
8And if they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of affliction;
9Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10He opens also their ear to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.
11If they listen and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
12But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
13But those who are godless in heart lay up anger: They do not cry for help when he binds them.
14They die in youth, And their life perishes among the unclean.
15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.
16Indeed, he would have allured you out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no restriction; And that which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
17But you are full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18For do not let wrath stir you up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
19Will your cry avail, that you may not be in distress, Or all the forces of your strength?
20Do not desire the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
21Take heed, do not regard iniquity: For this you have chosen rather than affliction.
22Behold, God acts loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like him?
23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, You have done unrighteousness?
24Remember that you magnify his work, Of which men have sung.
25All men have looked on it; Man beholds it from afar.
26Behold, God is great, and we do not know him; The number of his years is unsearchable.
27For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,
28Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.
29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
30Behold, he spreads his light around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea.
31For by these he judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
32He covers his hands with the lightning, And gives it a charge that it strikes the mark.
33Its noise tells concerning him, The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.