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[1]And Elihu addeth and saith: --
[2]Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.
[3]I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
[4]For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.
[5]Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
[6]He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;
[7]He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
[8]And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
[9]Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
[10]And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.
[11]If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
[12]And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
[13]And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
[14]Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
[15]He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
[16]And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
[17]And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
[18]Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
[19]Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
[20]Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
[21]Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.
[22]Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher?
[23]Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'
[24]Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
[25]All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
[26]Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.
[27]When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
[28]Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
[29]Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
[30]Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,
[31]For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
[32]By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
[33]He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.
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