And Elihu added, and said,
Wait for me a little, and I will show thee;{HR}For [there are] yet words for God [Eloah].
I will fetch my knowledge from afar,{HR}And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
For truly my words [shall] not [be] falsehood:{HR}One upright in knowledge [is] with thee.
Lo! God [El] [is] great, and despiseth not,{HR}Great in strength — in heart.
He letteth not the ungodly live,{HR}And giveth the afflicted their right.
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous,{HR}And with kings on the throne, yea,{HR}He establisheth them forever,{HR}And they are exalted.
And if, bound in fetters,{HR}They be held with cords of affliction,
Then he showeth them their work,{HR}And their transgressions that they have been mighty;
And he openeth their ear to the instruction,{HR}And saith to them, that they turn back from vanity.
If they hear and serve, they end their days in good,{HR}And their years in pleasantness;
But if they hear not, their soul passes by the dart,{HR}And expireth in want of knowledge;
And the impious in heart lay up wrath,{HR}They cry not when he bindeth them;
Their soul dieth like that of youths,{HR}And their life among the polluted.
He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction,{HR}And he uncovereth their ear by trouble;
And thee, too, he lureth out of the jaws of distress,{HR}A wide place, on the site of which [is] no straitness,{HR}And the setting of thy table fullness of fatness.
But hast thou filled up the judgment of the wicked?{HR}Judgment and justice will take hold.
For beware, lest wrath stir thee against the blow,{HR}And a great ransom turn not the scale in thy favour.
Will he value thy wealth?{HR}Not gold, nor all the powers of might.
Desire not the might, the going up of nations on the spot.
Take heed — look not to sin,{HR}So that thou wouldest choose this rather than affliction.
Lo! God exalteth by his power:{HR}Who is a teacher like him?
Who hath assigned to him his way?{HR}And who hath said, Thou doest wrong?
Remember that thou magnify his work,{HR}Which mortals behold;
All men looked on it;{HR}Mortal man looketh attentively from afar.
Lo! God [is] great — we know not;{HR}As for the number of his years, [there is] no searching.
When he draineth off the drops of water,{HR}They condense into rain in place of its mist,
So that clouds drop, they distil copiously on man.
Yea, doth one understand the spreading of the cloud?{HR}The noises of his tabernacle?
Lo! He hath spread over it his light,{HR}And hath covered the depths of the sea.
For by them he judgeth the nations;{HR}He giveth, food in abundance.
On both hands he covereth lightning,{HR}And giveth it a charge in striking.
The noise of it announceth concerning him,{HR}Store of wrath against perversity.