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| 1 And Elihu added and said:– |
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| 2 Restrain thyself for me a little, and I will shew thee, that, yet–for GOD, there is justification, |
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| 3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness. |
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| 4 For, of a truth–not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee. |
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| 5 Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;
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| 6 He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant; |
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| 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. |
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| 8 But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction, |
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| 9 Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions–that they were wont to behave themselves proudly; |
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| 10 Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said–that they should turn from iniquity. |
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| 11 If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness; |
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| 12 But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing. |
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| 13 Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them. |
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| 14 Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean. |
They – Margin: Their soul. It is not the body, but the being, called in scripture "soul", that dies. R205:4, R277:1
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| 15 He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover–in oppression–their ear. |
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| 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. |
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| 17 But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold. |
Take hold on thee – "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne." (Psa. 89:14) T124
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| 18 Because there is wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee. |
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| 19 Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength. |
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| 20 Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place. |
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| 21 Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction. |
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| 22 Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach? |
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| 23 Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity? |
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| 24 Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung; |
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| 25 Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar. |
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| 26 Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out! |
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| 27 For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist; |
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| 28 With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance. |
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| 29 But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion! |
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| 30 Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered. |
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| 31 For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance: |
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| 32 Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant: |
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| 33 His rolling thunder telleth concerning him,–The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up. |
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