¹Then Elihu continued and said,

²“Stay around me a little while,

And I will declare more to you,

For God still has words to come.

³I will take the sum of my knowledge

Which comes from afar

And ascribe righteousness to my maker.

⁴For truly, my words are not false;

He who is omniscient is with you.

⁵Behold, God is mighty,

And he does not reject anyone;

He is mighty in depth of character.

⁶He does not preserve the wicked man alive,

But gives justice to the poor.

⁷He will not withdraw his eyes from the righteous,

For he seats them with kings on the throne,

And he accommodates them in perpetuity,

And they are exalted.

⁸And if any are bound in fetters,

If they are taken by the cords of affliction,

⁹Then he tells them their work,

Including their transgressions,

When they behaved insolently.

¹⁰And he opens their ears to correction,

And tells them that they must renounce iniquity.

¹¹If they hearken and serve him,

They will complete their days in prosperity,

And their years in pleasantness.

¹²But if they do not hearken,

They will perish by the missile,

And they will expire in ignorance.

¹³And the profane-minded lay up wrath;

They cannot cry out,

For he binds them.

¹⁴They die in youth,

And their life ends among male prostitutes.

¹⁵He delivers the afflicted in his affliction,

And he opens their ears in their oppression.

¹⁶And indeed he would draw you away from the jaws of straitness

To a broad place

So that there is no distress in the vicinity,

And that which is set on your table

Would be full of fatness.

¹⁷But you are full of judgment belonging to the wicked;

Judgment and justice are taking hold of you.

¹⁸When there is fury,

Beware lest he draw you away at a stroke,

To where no great ransom can lead you back.

¹⁹Will he respect your riches,

You who are not in straitness?

No, nor will he respect any exercise of power.

²⁰Do not desire the night,

When whole peoples are upheaved on the spot.

²¹Beware and do not turn to iniquity,

For you have chosen this way

Rather than the way of affliction.

²²You see how God exalts by his power.

Who is a teacher like him?

²³Who appointed him his way?

And who can say,

‘You have committed iniquity’?

²⁴Remember this when you extol his work,

Which men gaze upon.

²⁵All men have seen it;

Mortal man beholds it from afar.

²⁶Behold, God is exalted,

And we do not know the number of his years,

And there is no way of searching them out.

²⁷For he draws off particles of water

Which condense as rain in his mist

²⁸And distil as fine clouds;

They precipitate on man abundantly.

²⁹Can anyone really understand the spreading out of clouds

Or the rumblings of his abode?

³⁰Behold, he spreads his light out over it

And covers the sea bed.

³¹Yet by these weather phenomena he judges nations

And gives food abundantly.

³²With his hands he grasps the lightning

And commands it where to strike.

³³Its noise warns of it;

Cattle do so too,

Of what is arising.