Rotherham - Job - 36

36:1  And Elihu added and said:—

36:2  Restrain thyself for me a little, and I will shew thee, that, yet—for GOD, there is justification,

36:3  I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.

36:4  For, of a truth—not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee.

36:5  Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;

36:6  He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant;

36:7  He will not withdraw—from a righteous one—his eyes,—but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.

36:8  But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,

36:9  Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions—that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;

36:10  Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said—that they should turn from iniquity.

36:11  If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

36:12  But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.

36:13  Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.

36:14  Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.

36:15  He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover—in oppression—their ear.

36:16  Yea he might even have allured thee—out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space—no narrowness there,—and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.

36:17  But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold.

36:18  Because there is wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.

36:19  Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.

36:20  Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.

36:21  Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.

36:22  Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?

36:23  Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?

36:24  Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;

36:25  Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.

36:26  Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!

36:27  For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;

36:28  With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.

36:29  But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!

36:30  Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

36:31  For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:

36:32  Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:

36:33  His rolling thunder telleth concerning him,—The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.