Job 36

¹And Elihu addeth and saith: —

²Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.

³I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

⁴For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.

⁵Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.

⁶He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

⁷He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

⁸And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

⁹Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

¹⁰And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

¹¹If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

¹²And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

¹³And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

¹⁴Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

¹⁵He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.