36Job 36

1And Elihu addeth and saith: --Select Job 36:1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16And 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.Select Job 36:16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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