1 A nd Elihu proceeded and said,

2 S uffer 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 F or truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.

5 L o, God is mighty, but despiseth not; mighty in strength of understanding:

6 H e saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.

7 H e 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 A nd if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,

9 T hen he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

10 A nd he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

11 I f they hearken and serve, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

12 B ut if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.

13 B ut the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

14 T heir soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

15 B ut he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in oppression.

16 E ven 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 full of fatness.

17 B ut thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold.

18 B ecause there is wrath, lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

19 W ill he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!

20 D esire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

21 T ake heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

22 L o, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

23 W ho hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

24 R emember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.

25 A ll men look at it; man beholdeth afar off.

26 L o, God is great, and we comprehend not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

27 F or he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

28 W hich the skies pour down drop upon man abundantly.

29 B ut can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashing of his pavilion?

30 L o, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

31 F or with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.

32 h ands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

33 H is thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.