^36:1 Elihu also proceeded and said, ^36:2 Allow me a little and I will show you. For I have yet words for God. ^36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar and will bestow righteousness to my maker. ^36:4 (For truly my words are not false.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

    ^36:5 Behold, God is mighty and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding. ^36:6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right. ^36:7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne and they are exalted.

    ^36:8 And if they are bound in fetters and be taken in the cords of afflictions, ^36:9 then he shows them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. ^36:10 He also opens their ear to instruction and commands that they return from wickedness.

    ^36:11 If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.^36:12 But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and they will die without knowledge.

    ^36:13 But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.^36:14 They die in youth and their life perishes among the unclean.

    ^36:15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear in oppression. ^36:16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress into a broad place, where there is no constraint and what is set on your table would be full of fatness.

    ^36:17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold, ^36:18 and there will be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

    ^36:19 Will your cry arrange freedom from distress, or all the forces of strength? ^36:20 Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place. ^36:21 Take heed. Do not turn to wickedness, for you have fixed on this because of affliction.

    ^36:22 Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him? ^36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have worked unrighteousness? ^36:24 Remember that you magnify his work, of which men have sung. ^36:25 All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.

    ^36:26 Behold, God is great and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. ^36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, ^36:28 which the skies flow and drop upon man abundantly.

    ^36:29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? ^36:30Behold, he spreads his light around him and he covers the bottom of the sea. ^36:31 For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance.

    ^36:32 He covers his hands with the lightning and gives it a command that it strike the mark. ^36:33 The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.