Job 36

¹ Elihu continued and said: ² "Compass about me a bit, and I shall disclose it all to you, For I still have declarations concerning Eloah. ³ I shall bear my knowledge from afar And ascribe righteousness to my Maker. ⁴ For truly my declarations are not false; One flawless in knowledge is with you. ⁵ Behold, El is abundant in vigor And does not reject the pure of heart. ⁶ He does not keep the wicked alive But gives the humble their due. ⁷ He does not diminish the guard of His eyes over the righteous, But with kings on the throne He seats them permanently, And they are elevated. ⁸ But if being bound with manacles, They are seized by the cord lines of humiliation, ⁹ Then He is telling them of their deeds And their transgressions, that they are making themselves arrogantly masterful. ¹⁰ Thus He reveals to their ears His disciplining authority, And demands that they turn back from lawlessness. ¹¹ If they hearken and serve Him, They finish their days in good And their years in pleasures. ¹² But if they do not hearken, They pass away by the javelin And expire without knowledge. ¹³ As for the polluted of heart who nourish anger, Who do not implore when He binds them, ¹⁴ Their soul dies in youth, And their life ends among cult-prostitutes. ¹⁵ He liberates the humble one by his humiliations And reveals truth to their ears by oppression. ¹⁶ Thus also He will allure you from the mouth of distress To a wide place without constraint, in its stead; And for rest at your table He will fill it with richness. ¹⁷ And with the adjudication of the wicked one you will be filled; Adjudication and judgment shall be upheld. ¹⁸ But beware lest one should allure you with affluence; Let not the vastness of the sheltering gift turn you aside. ¹⁹ Shall He arrange your thriving without distress And all exertions of vigor? ²⁰ Do not gasp for the night When peoples ascend to their place. ²¹ Beware, you must not face about to lawlessness, For on account of this you have been tested by humiliation. ²² Behold, El is impregnable in His vigor; Who is a Director like Him? ²³ Who checks out His way against Him? Or who says, You have contrived iniquity? ²⁴ Remember that you should extol His deeds, Of which men have sung. ²⁵ All humanity have perceived it; A mortal, he looks from afar. ²⁶ Behold, El is so great we cannot know it, And the number of His years cannot be investigated. ²⁷ For He condenses the drops of water That filter as rain for His mist, ²⁸ That exude from the skies And drip down on humanity as showers. ²⁹ Indeed, can one understand the spreading, thick clouds, The thunderous tumults from His booth? ³⁰ Behold, He spreads His mist over it, And covers the roots of the sea. ³¹ For with them He gives sustenance to the peoples; He gives food in abundance. ³² He covers His palms with lightning And instructs it with sure aim. ³³ His thunder tells about it, The cattle, also, about what is coming up."