MLV(i)
1 Elihu also proceeded and said,
2 Allow me a little and I will show you. For I have yet words for God.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar and will bestow righteousness to my maker.
4 (For truly my words are not false.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 Behold, God is mighty and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding. 6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right. 7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne and they are exalted.
8 And if they are bound in fetters and be taken in the cords of afflictions, 9 then he shows them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. 10 He also opens their ear to instruction and commands that they return from wickedness.
11 If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and they will die without knowledge.
13 But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them. 14 They die in youth and their life perishes among the unclean.
15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear in oppression. 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.
17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold, 18 and there will be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
19 Will your cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength? 20 Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place. 21 Take heed. Do not turn to wickedness, for you have fixed on this because of affliction.
22 Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him? 23 Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have worked unrighteousness? 24 Remember that you magnify his work, of which men have sung. 25 All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.
26 Behold, God is great and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. 27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, 28 which the skies flow and drop upon man abundantly.
29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 30 Behold, he spreads his light around him and he covers the bottom of the sea. 31 For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance.
32 He covers his hands with the lightning and gives it a command that it strike the mark. 33 The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.
5 Behold, God is mighty and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding. 6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right. 7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne and they are exalted.
8 And if they are bound in fetters and be taken in the cords of afflictions, 9 then he shows them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. 10 He also opens their ear to instruction and commands that they return from wickedness.
11 If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and they will die without knowledge.
13 But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them. 14 They die in youth and their life perishes among the unclean.
15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear in oppression. 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.
17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold, 18 and there will be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
19 Will your cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength? 20 Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place. 21 Take heed. Do not turn to wickedness, for you have fixed on this because of affliction.
22 Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him? 23 Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have worked unrighteousness? 24 Remember that you magnify his work, of which men have sung. 25 All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.
26 Behold, God is great and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. 27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, 28 which the skies flow and drop upon man abundantly.
29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 30 Behold, he spreads his light around him and he covers the bottom of the sea. 31 For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance.
32 He covers his hands with the lightning and gives it a command that it strike the mark. 33 The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.