Job 36 — ULB

36Verse 1Elihu continued on and said,^{Verse 2}“Permit me to speak a little longer, and I will show you some things
because I have a little more to say in defense of God.
^{Verse 3}I will obtain my knowledge from far off;
I will acknowledge that righteousness belongs to my Maker.
^{Verse 4}For indeed, my words will not be false;
someone who is mature in knowledge is with you.
^{Verse 5}See, God is mighty, and despises no one;
he is mighty in strength of understanding.
^{Verse 6}He does not preserve the life of wicked people
but instead does what is right for those who suffer.
^{Verse 7}He does not withdraw his eyes from righteous people
but instead sets them on thrones like kings forever,
and they are lifted up.
^{Verse 8}If they are bound in chains
and trapped in cords of suffering,
^{Verse 9}then he reveals to them what they have done,
and their transgressions and their pride.
^{Verse 10}He also opens their ears to his instruction,
and commands them to turn back from iniquity.
^{Verse 11}If they listen to him and worship him,
they will spend their days in prosperity,
their years in contentment.
^{Verse 12}However, if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword;
they will die because they have no knowledge.
^{Verse 13}Those who are godless in heart store up their anger;
they do not cry out for help even when God ties them up.
^{Verse 14}They die in their youth;
their lives end among the cultic prostitutes.
^{Verse 15}God rescues afflicted people by means of their afflictions;
he opens their ears by means of their oppression.
^{Verse 16}Indeed, he would like to draw you out of distress
into a broad place where there is no hardship
and where your table would be set with food full of fatness.
^{Verse 17}But you are full of judgment on wicked people;
judgment and justice have laid hold of you.
^{Verse 18}Do not let your anger entice you to mockery,
or the greatness of a ransom to turn you aside.
^{Verse 19}Can your wealth benefit you, so that you will not be in distress,
or can all the force of your strength help you?
^{Verse 20}Do not desire the night, to commit sin against others,
when peoples are cut off in their place.
^{Verse 21}Be careful that you do not turn to sin
because you are being tested by suffering so that you will stay away from sinning.
^{Verse 22}See, God is exalted in his power;
who is a teacher like him?
^{Verse 23}Who has ever instructed him about his way?
Who can ever say to him, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'
^{Verse 24}Remember to praise his deeds,
of which people have sung.
^{Verse 25}All people have looked on those deeds,
but they see those deeds only from far away.
^{Verse 26}See, God is great, but we do not understand him well;
the number of his years is incalculable.
^{Verse 27}For he draws up the drops of water
that he distills as rain from his vapor,^{+
Verse 28}which the clouds pour down
and drop in abundance on mankind.
^{Verse 29}Indeed, can anyone understand the extensive spread of the clouds
and the thunder from his hut?
^{Verse 30}See, he spreads his lightning around him
and covers the roots of the sea.
^{Verse 31}In this way he judges the peoples
and gives food in abundance.
^{Verse 32}He fills his hands with the lightning
until he commands it to strike its mark.
^{Verse 33}Its thunder warns of the storm,
the cattle can also hear it is coming.