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[1]And Elihu proceeded and said,
[2]Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.
[3]I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
[4]For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
[5]Lo, ùGod is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:
[6]He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.
[7]He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.
[8]And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
[9]Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
[10]And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
[11]If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
[12]But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
[13]But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:
[14]Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
[15]But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.
[16]Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.
[17]But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
[18]Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
[19]Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
[20]Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
[21]Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
[22]Lo, ùGod is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
[23]Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
[24]Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
[25]All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.
[26]Lo, ùGod is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
[27]For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
[28]Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.
[29]But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
[30]Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
[31]For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
[32][His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.
[33]His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.
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