1Elihu also continued, and said,
2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
3I will get my knowledge from afar,
4For truly my words are not false.
5“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.
6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,
7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
8If they are bound in fetters,
9then he shows them their work,
10He also opens their ears to instruction,
11If they listen and serve him,
12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;
13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.
14They die in youth.
15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,
16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,
17“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.
18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,
19Would your wealth sustain you in distress,
20Don’t desire the night,
21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;
22Behold, God is exalted in his power.
23Who has prescribed his way for him?
24“Remember that you magnify his work,
25All men have looked on it.
26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him.
27For he draws up the drops of water,
28which the skies pour down
29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds
30Behold, he spreads his light around him.
31For by these he judges the people.
32He covers his hands with the lightning,
33Its noise tells about him,