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| 1 Elihu also proceeded, and said, |
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2 Suffer me a little, and I will show thee;
For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.
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3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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4 For truly my words are not false:
One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:
He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked,
But giveth to the afflicted their right.
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7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:
But with kings upon the throne
He setteth them ever after, and they are exalted.
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8 And if they be bound in fetters,
And be taken in the cords of affliction;
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9 Then he showeth them their work,
And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
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10 He openeth also their ear to instruction,
And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
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11 If they hearken and serve him,
They shall spend their days in prosperity,
And their years in pleasures.
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12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,
And they shall die without knowledge.
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13 But they that are godless in heart lay up anger:
They cry not for help when he bindeth them.
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14 Their soul dieth in youth,
And their life perisheth among the unclean.
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They – Margin: Their soul. It is not the body, but the being, called in scripture "soul", that dies. R205:4, R277:1
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15 He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction,
And openeth their ear in oppression.
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16 Yes, he would have allured thee out of distress
Into a broad place, where there is no straitness;
And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
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17 But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked:
Judgment and justice take hold on thee.
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Take hold on thee – "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne." (Psa. 89:14) T124
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18 For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements;
Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
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19 Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress,
Or all the forces of thy strength?
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20 Desire not the night,
When peoples are cut off in their place.
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21 Take heed, regard not iniquity:
For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
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22 Behold, God doeth loftily in his power:
Who is a teacher like unto him?
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23 Who hath enjoined him his way?
Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
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24 Remember that thou magnify his work,
Whereof men have sung.
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25 All men have looked thereon;
Man beholdeth it afar off.
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26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not;
The number of his years is unsearchable.
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27 For he draweth up the drops of water,
Which distil in rain from his vapor,
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28 Which the skies pour down
And drop upon man abundantly.
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29 Yes, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,
The thunderings of his pavilion?
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30 Behold, he spreadeth his light around him;
And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
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31 For by these he judgeth the peoples;
He giveth food in abundance.
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32 He covereth his hands with the lightning,
And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
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33 The noise thereof telleth concerning him,
The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up. |
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