1. Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2. Bear with me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4. For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5. Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6. He does not preserve the life of the wicked: but gives justice to the poor.
7. He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he establishes them for ever, and they are exalted.
8. And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;
9. Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have gone too far.
10. He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11. If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12. But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13. But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they do not cry out to God when he binds them.
14. They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15. He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
16. Even so would he have removed you out of distress into a wide place, where there is no trouble; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.
17. But you have filled up the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
18. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
19. Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the power of your strength.
20. Do not desire the night of death, when people are cut off in their place.
21. Be careful, do not regard iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than to bear affliction.
22. Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
23. Who has shown him his way? or who can say, You have wrought iniquity?
24. Remember to magnify his work, which men behold.
25. Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26. Behold, God is great, and we do not know him, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27. For he makes the drops of water small: they pour down rain according to the vapor of water:
28. Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30. Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
31. For by them he judges the people; he gives food in abundance.
32. With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine because of the cloud that comes between.
33. The noise thereof announces it, the cattle also sense the coming storm.