Capítulo 36

1 - Elihu also proceeded, and said,

2 - Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

3 - I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4 - For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

5 - Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.

6 - He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted [their] right.

7 - He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

8 - And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

9 - Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

10 - He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

11 - If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

12 - But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

13 - But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

14 - They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean.

15 - He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

16 - Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

17 - But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

18 - For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

19 - Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?

20 - Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

21 - Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

22 - Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

23 - Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

24 - Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

25 - All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.

26 - Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

27 - For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

28 - Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.

29 - Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

30 - Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

31 - For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

32 - He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

33 - The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that cometh up.