Job 36: 1 - 37: 24
| 1Elihu also continued, and said, |
| 2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; |
| for I still have something to say on God’s behalf. |
| 3I will get 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. |
| 5“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. |
| He is mighty in strength of understanding. |
| 6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, |
| but gives justice to the afflicted. |
| 7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, |
| but with kings on the throne, |
| he sets them forever, and they are exalted. |
| 8If they are bound in fetters, |
| and are taken in the cords of afflictions, |
| 9then he shows them their work, |
| and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. |
| 10He also opens their ears to instruction, |
| and commands that they return from iniquity. |
| 11If they listen and serve him, |
| they will spend their days in prosperity, |
| and their years in pleasures. |
| 12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; |
| they will die without knowledge. |
| 13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. |
| They don’t cry for help when he binds them. |
| 14They die in youth. |
| Their life perishes amongst the unclean. |
| 15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, |
| and opens their ear in oppression. |
| 16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, |
| into a wide place, where there is no restriction. |
| That which is set on your table would be full of fatness. |
| 17“But you are full of the judgement of the wicked. |
| Judgement and justice take hold of you. |
| 18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, |
| neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside. |
| 19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, |
| or all the might of your strength? |
| 20Don’t desire the night, |
| when people are cut off in their place. |
| 21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; |
| for you have chosen this rather than affliction. |
| 22Behold, God is exalted in his power. |
| Who is a teacher like him? |
| 23Who has prescribed his way for him? |
| Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’ |
| 24“Remember that you magnify his work, |
| about which men have sung. |
| 25All men have looked on it. |
| Man sees it afar off. |
| 26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. |
| The number of his years is unsearchable. |
| 27For he draws up the drops of water, |
| which distill in rain from his vapour, |
| 28which the skies pour down |
| and which drop on man abundantly. |
| 29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, |
| and the thunderings of his pavilion? |
| 30Behold, he spreads his light around him. |
| He covers the bottom of the sea. |
| 31For by these he judges the people. |
| He gives food in abundance. |
| 32He covers his hands with the lightning, |
| and commands it to strike the mark. |
| 33Its noise tells about him, |
| and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up. |
| 1“Yes, at this my heart trembles, |
| and is moved out of its place. |
| 2Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, |
| the sound that goes out of his mouth. |
| 3He sends it out under the whole sky, |
| and his lightning to the ends of the earth. |
| 4After it a voice roars. |
| He thunders with the voice of his majesty. |
| He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard. |
| 5God thunders marvellously with his voice. |
| He does great things, which we can’t comprehend. |
| 6For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ |
| likewise to the shower of rain, |
| and to the showers of his mighty rain. |
| 7He seals up the hand of every man, |
| that all men whom he has made may know it. |
| 8Then the animals take cover, |
| and remain in their dens. |
| 9Out of its room comes the storm, |
| and cold out of the north. |
| 10By the breath of God, ice is given, |
| and the width of the waters is frozen. |
| 11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. |
| He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. |
| 12It is turned around by his guidance, |
| that they may do whatever he commands them |
| on the surface of the habitable world, |
| 13Whether it is for correction, or for his land, |
| or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come. |
| 14“Listen to this, Job. |
| Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. |
| 15Do you know how God controls them, |
| and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? |
| 16Do you know the workings of the clouds, |
| the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? |
| 17You whose clothing is warm, |
| when the earth is still by reason of the south wind? |
| 18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, |
| which is strong as a cast metal mirror? |
| 19Teach us what we will tell him, |
| for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness. |
| 20Will it be told him that I would speak? |
| Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up? |
| 21Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, |
| but the wind passes, and clears them. |
| 22Out of the north comes golden splendour. |
| With God is awesome majesty. |
| 23We can’t reach the Almighty. |
| He is exalted in power. |
| In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress. |
| 24Therefore men revere him. |
| He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.” |
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