YLT - Job - 36

36:1  And Elihu addeth and saith: --

36:2  Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.

36:3  I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

36:4  For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.

36:5  Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.

36:6  He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

36:7  He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

36:8  And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

36:9  Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

36:10  And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

36:11  If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

36:12  And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

36:13  And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

36:14  Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

36:15  He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

36:16  And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place--no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

36:17  And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld--because of fury,

36:18  Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

36:19  Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

36:20  Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

36:21  Take heed--do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than on affliction.

36:22  Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him--a teacher?

36:23  Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'

36:24  Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

36:25  All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

36:26  Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

36:27  When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

36:28  Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

36:29  Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

36:30  Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

36:31  For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

36:32  By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

36:33  He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.