Job 36:1-33 LSV

[1] And Elihu adds and says: [2] “Honor me a little, and I show you, || That yet for God [are] words. [3] I lift up my knowledge from afar, || And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker. [4] For my words [are] truly not false, || The perfect in knowledge [is] with you. [5] Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, || Mighty [in] power [and] heart. [6] He does not revive the wicked, || And appoints the judgment of the poor; [7] He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, || And [from] kings on the throne, || And causes them to sit forever, and they are high, [8] And if prisoners in chains || They are captured with cords of affliction, [9] Then He declares to them their work, || And their transgressions, || Because they have become mighty, [10] And He uncovers their ear for instruction, || And commands that they turn back from iniquity. [11] If they hear and serve, || They complete their days in good, || And their years in pleasantness. [12] And if they do not listen, || They pass away by the dart, || And expire without knowledge. [13] And the profane in heart set the face, || They do not cry when He has bound them. [14] Their soul dies in youth, || And their life among the defiled. [15] He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, || And uncovers their ear in oppression. [16] And He also moved you from a narrow place || [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, || And the sitting beyond of your table has been full of fatness. [17] And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, || Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury, [18] Lest He move you with a stroke, || And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside. [19] Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power. [20] Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead. [21] Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, || For you have fixed on this || Rather than [on] affliction. [22] Behold, God sits on high by His power, || Who [is] like Him—a teacher? [23] Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity? [24] Remember that you magnify His work || That men have beheld. [25] All men have looked on it, || Man looks attentively from afar. [26] Behold, God [is] high, || And we do not know the number of His years, || Indeed, there [is] no searching. [27] When He diminishes droppings of the waters, || They refine rain according to its vapor, [28] Which clouds drop, || They distill on man abundantly. [29] Indeed, do [any] understand || The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place? [30] Behold, He has spread His light over it, || And He has covered the roots of the sea, [31] For He judges peoples by them, || He gives food in abundance. [32] By two palms He has covered the light, || And lays a charge over it in meeting, [33] His shout shows it, || The livestock also, the rising [storm].”