1And Elihu spoke again and said:2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet more to say on God’s behalf.3I will bring my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.4For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.5“Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.6He does not preserve the life of the wicked but gives to the afflicted their right.7He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them, and they are exalted for ever.8If they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,9then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.10He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.11If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.12But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.13“The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.14They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.16He would have allured you from the jaws of distress into a broad place where there is no cramping, and to the comfort of your table full of rich food.17“But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.18Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.19Will your cry for help avail, or all the might of your strength?20Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish from their place.21Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.22Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?23Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?24“Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.25All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.26Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.27For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,28which the clouds pour out and drip on mankind abundantly.29Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?30Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.31For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.32He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.33Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also, concerning the rising storm.