en_wbms - Job 36 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Also Elihu added, and spake these things,

² Suffer thou me a little, and I shall show to thee; for yet I have that, that I shall speak for God.

³ I shall rehearse my knowing from the beginning; and I shall prove my worker just [or rightwise].

⁴ For verily my words be without leasing, and by them perfect knowing shall be proved to thee.

⁵ God casteth not away mighty men, since he is mighty;

⁶ but he saveth not wicked men, and he giveth doom to poor men.

⁷ He taketh not away his eyes from a just [or rightwise] man; and he setteth kings in their seat without end, and they be raised up there.

⁸ And if they be in chains, and be bound with the ropes of poverty,

⁹ he shall show to them their works, and their great trespasses; for they were violent, either raveners.

¹⁰ Also he shall open their ears, that he chastise them; and he shall speak to them, that they turn again from their wickedness.

¹¹ If they hear him, and keep his behests, they shall full-fill their days in good, and their years in glory.

¹² Soothly if they hear not, they shall pass away by sword, and they shall be wasted in folly.

¹³ Feigners and false men stir the wrath of God; and they shall not cry to God, and acknowledge their guilt, when they be bound.

¹⁴ The soul of them shall die in tempest; and the life of them among womanish men.

¹⁵ He shall deliver a poor man from his anguish; and he shall open his ear in tribulation.

¹⁶ Therefore he shall save thee from the strait mouth of the broadest tribulation, and not having a founda-ment under it; and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

¹⁷ Thy cause is deemed as the cause of a wicked man; and thou shalt receive thy cause and thy doom.

¹⁸ Therefore wrath overcome thee not, that thou oppress any man; and the multitude of gifts bow thee not.

¹⁹ Put down thy greatness without tribulation, and put down all strong men by strength.

²⁰ Delay thou not the night, that peoples go up for them.

²¹ Be thou ware, that thou bow not to wickedness; for thou hast begun to follow this wickedness after wretched-ness.

²² Lo! God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the givers of law.

²³ Who may seek out the ways of God? either who dare say to him, Thou hast wrought wickedness?

²⁴ Have thou mind, that thou knowest not his work, of whom men have sung.

²⁵ All men see God; each man be-holdeth afar.

²⁶ Lo! God is great, over-coming our knowing; the number of his years is without number.

²⁷ He taketh the drops of rain; and he poureth out rains at the likeness of floodgates,

²⁸ which come down of the clouds, that cover all things above.

²⁹ If he will stretch forth clouds as his tent,

³⁰ and lightning with his light from above, he shall cover, yea, the hinges of the sea.

³¹ For by these things he deemeth peoples, and giveth meat to many deadly men.

³² In hands he hideth light; and commandeth it, that it come again.

³³ He telleth of it to his friend, that it is his possession; and that he may ascend [or go up] to it.