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“Let me go on, and I will show you the truth.
For I have not finished defending God!
For I have not finished defending God!
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.
I will present profound arguments
for the righteousness of my Creator.
for the righteousness of my Creator.
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
I am telling you nothing but the truth,
for I am a man of great knowledge.
for I am a man of great knowledge.
For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
“God is mighty, but he does not despise anyone!
He is mighty in both power and understanding.
He is mighty in both power and understanding.
Lo, God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:
He does not let the wicked live
but gives justice to the afflicted.
but gives justice to the afflicted.
He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.
He never takes his eyes off the innocent,
but he sets them on thrones with kings
and exalts them forever.
but he sets them on thrones with kings
and exalts them forever.
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.
If they are bound in chains
and caught up in a web of trouble,
and caught up in a web of trouble,
And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
he shows them the reason.
He shows them their sins of pride.
He shows them their sins of pride.
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
He gets their attention
and commands that they turn from evil.
and commands that they turn from evil.
And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
“If they listen and obey God,
they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives.
All their years will be pleasant.
they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives.
All their years will be pleasant.
If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
But if they refuse to listen to him,
they will cross over the river of death,
dying from lack of understanding.
they will cross over the river of death,
dying from lack of understanding.
But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
For the godless are full of resentment.
Even when he punishes them,
they refuse to cry out to him for help.
Even when he punishes them,
they refuse to cry out to him for help.
But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:
They die when they are young,
after wasting their lives in immoral living.
after wasting their lives in immoral living.
Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer.
For he gets their attention through adversity.
For he gets their attention through adversity.
But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.
“God is leading you away from danger, Job,
to a place free from distress.
He is setting your table with the best food.
to a place free from distress.
He is setting your table with the best food.
Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.
But you are obsessed with whether the godless will be judged.
Don’t worry, judgment and justice will be upheld.
Don’t worry, judgment and justice will be upheld.
But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
Be on guard! Turn back from evil,
for God sent this suffering
to keep you from a life of evil.
Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Power
for God sent this suffering
to keep you from a life of evil.
Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Power
Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
“Look, God is all-powerful.
Who is a teacher like him?
Who is a teacher like him?
Lo, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
No one can tell him what to do,
or say to him, ‘You have done wrong.’
or say to him, ‘You have done wrong.’
Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
Instead, glorify his mighty works,
singing songs of praise.
singing songs of praise.
Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
Everyone has seen these things,
though only from a distance.
though only from a distance.
All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.
“Look, God is greater than we can understand.
His years cannot be counted.
His years cannot be counted.
Lo, God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
He draws up the water vapor
and then distills it into rain.
and then distills it into rain.
For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
The rain pours down from the clouds,
and everyone benefits.
and everyone benefits.
Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.
Who can understand the spreading of the clouds
and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?
and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?
But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
See how he spreads the lightning around him
and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
He fills his hands with lightning bolts
and hurls each at its target.
and hurls each at its target.
[His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.