[36:1] And Elihu continued, and said:
[36:2] “Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf.
[36:3] I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
[36:4] For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
[36:5] “Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
[36:6] He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
[36:7] He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
[36:8] And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
[36:9] then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
[36:10] He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
[36:11] If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
[36:12] But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
[36:13] “The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
[36:14] They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
[36:15] He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
[36:16] He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
[36:17] “But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
[36:18] Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
[36:19] Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
[36:20] Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
[36:21] Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
[36:22] Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
[36:23] Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?
[36:24] “Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
[36:25] All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
[36:26] Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
[36:27] For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,
[36:28] which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.
[36:29] Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
[36:30] Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
[36:31] For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
[36:32] He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
[36:33] Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.