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| [1]And Elius further continued, and said, |
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| [2]Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach thee: for there is yet speech in me. |
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| [3]Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works, |
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| [4]I will speak just things truly, and thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words. |
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| [5]But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom, |
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| [6]he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor. |
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| [7]He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but they shall be with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted. |
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| [8]But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty. |
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| [9]And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence. |
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| [10]But he will hearken to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness. |
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| [11]If they should hear and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honour. |
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| [12]But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient. |
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| [13]And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath against themselves; they will not cry, because he has bound them. |
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| [14]Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers of death. |
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| [15]Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek. |
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| [16]And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy: |
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| [17]there is a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous; |
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| [18]but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities. |
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| [19]Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress. |
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| [20]And draw not forth all the mighty men by night, so that the people should go up instead of them. |
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| [21]But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong: for of this thou has made choice because of poverty. |
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| [22]Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is? |
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| [23]And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice? |
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| [24]Remember that his works are great beyond those which men have attempted. |
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| [25]Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded. |
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| [26]Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know him: the number of his years is even infinite. |
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| [27]And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. |
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| [28]The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. Yet by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in thy body. |
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| [29]And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of his tabernacle; |
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| [30]behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea. |
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| [31]For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength. |
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| [32]He has hidden the light in his hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing cloud. |
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| [33]The Lord will declare concerning this to his friend: but there is a portion also for unrighteousness. |
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