¹And Elihu added and said,

²Wait for me a little, and I will show you, for there are still words for God.

³I will lift up my knowledge from afar, and to my maker I will give righteousness.

⁴For truly my words are not false; one sound in knowledge is with you.

⁵Behold, God is mighty and does not reject; mighty in strength of heart.

⁶He does not keep alive the wicked, and he gives the poor their justice.

⁷He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; with kings on the throne he seats them for all time, and they are exalted.

⁸And if they are bound in fetters, caught in cords of affliction,

⁹then he tells them their deed and their transgressions, that they have behaved proudly.

¹⁰He uncovered their ear to discipline, and said that they must turn back from wickedness.

¹¹If they hear and serve, they will finish their days in good and their years in pleasant things.

¹²But if they do not hear, they pass away by the weapon, and breathe their last without knowledge.

¹³The godless of heart set anger in place; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

¹⁴Their being dies in youth, and their life among the temple prostitutes.

¹⁵He delivers the poor by their affliction, and uncovers their ear by oppression.

¹⁶And he also lures you from the mouth of a tight place into a broad place with no constraint beneath it, and what descends to your table is full of fatness.

¹⁷But you are full of the case of the wicked; case and justice take hold of you.

¹⁸For anger: lest it lure you into hand-clapping, and let the greatness of the ransom not turn you aside.

¹⁹Will your opulence set you in order, not in a tight place, nor all your strong efforts.

²⁰Do not long for the night, when peoples go up in their place.

²¹Take care, do not turn to wickedness, for you have chosen this over affliction.

²²Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

²³Who has assigned him his way? And who has said, You have done injustice?

²⁴Remember to magnify his work, which people have sung.

²⁵All humankind has gazed on it; a mortal looks from a distance.

²⁶Behold, God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years, there is no searching.

²⁷For he draws up the drops of water; they refine rain into his mist.

²⁸which the clouds pour down; they drip upon humankind in great number.

²⁹Also, can anyone understand the spreadings of the dark cloud, the crashes of his shelter?

³⁰Behold, he spreads his light around it, and covers the roots of the sea.

³¹For by them he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

³²He covers the palms with light, and commands it against the one who attacks.

³³His roar tells of him; the livestock too, of the one rising.