Job 36

And Elihu continued and said, 2 “Be patient with me a little and I will show you, for {there are} yet words to God. 3 I will carry my knowledge to from afar, and I will attribute righteousness to my Maker. \* 4 For truly my words {will} not {be} false; the complete in knowledge {is} with you. 5 Behold, God {is} mighty, and he does not despise; mighty, strong in heart. \* 6 He does not keep the wicked alive, but he gives the lowly justice. 7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them on a throne with kings forever, and they rise high. \* 8 But if {they are} bound in chains and they are caught in cords of affliction, 9 then he declares to them their deeds and their transgressions, for they magnified themselves, \* 10 and he opens their ear to correction and says that they shall return from iniquity. 11 If they hear and serve {him}, they will complete their days in good and their years in pleasantness. 12 But if they do not hear, they will cross over by a weapon, and they will expire as without knowledge. \* 13 And the godless of heart keep the nose; they do not cry out when he binds them. 14 Their soul dies in youth, and their life {is} among the cultic prostitutes. \* 15 He delivers the afflicted by his affliction, and he opens their ear by oppression. 16 And indeed, he has drawn you from the mouth of distress {to} a broad place {with} no constriction under it, and the setting of your table he has filled {with} fatness. \* 17 But you are full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold. 18 For wrath, lest it entice you into clapping, and the greatness of a ransom will not deliver you. \* 19 Will he esteem your riches? Not gold or all of the strengths of wealth! 20 Do not desire the night, {which is} to the departing of peoples {from} their place. 21 Watch yourself, do not turn to sin, for you have chosen upon that rather than affliction. \* 22 Behold, God causes to be high in his power. Who {is} a teacher like him? 23 Who has appointed his way to him? Or who has said, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’ 24 Remember that you magnify his work, which men have sung. \* 25 Every man has looked upon it; man has regarded from afar. 26 Behold, God {is} great, but we do not know {him}; the number of his years, indeed, {there is} no searching. \* 27 For he draws up the drops of water; they distill {as} rain into his stream, 28 which the clouds pour down; they drop upon man {in} abundance. 29 Indeed, if one will understand the spread of the cloud, the thunder from his booth? \* 30 Behold, he spreads his lightning upon it, and he covers the roots of the sea. 31 For by them he judges the peoples; he gives food in abundance. \* 32 He covers over his hands {with} lightning and he enjoins upon it against the mark. 33 He declares his shout about it; the cattle also about the thing arising. \*