Job 35-37 (Darby Translation)

Job 35

 ¹Moreover Elihu answered and said,

 ²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than ùGod's?

 ³For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

 ⁴I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.

 ⁵Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

 ⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

 ⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

 ⁸Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.

 ⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

 ¹⁰But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

 ¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?

 ¹²There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.

 ¹³Surely ùGod will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

 ¹⁴Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.

 ¹⁵But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?

 ¹⁶For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

Job 36

 ¹And Elihu proceeded and said,

 ²Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.

 ³I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.

 ⁴For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.

 ⁵Lo, ùGod is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:

 ⁶He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.

 ⁷He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.

 ⁸And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,

 ⁹Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

 ¹⁰And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

 ¹¹If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

 ¹²But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.

 ¹³But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

 ¹⁴Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

 ¹⁵But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.

 ¹⁶Even 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.

 ¹⁷But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

 ¹⁸Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

 ¹⁹Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!

 ²⁰Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

 ²¹Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

 ²²Lo, ùGod is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

 ²³Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

 ²⁴Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.

 ²⁵All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.

 ²⁶Lo, ùGod is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

 ²⁷For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

 ²⁸Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.

 ²⁹But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?

 ³⁰Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

 ³¹For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.

 ³²[His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

 ³³His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.

Job 37

 ¹Aye, my heart trembleth at this also, and leapeth up out of its place:

 ²Hear attentively the roar of his voice, and the murmur going forth from his mouth.

 ³He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

 ⁴After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency, and holdeth not back the flashes when his voice is heard.

 ⁵ùGod thundereth marvellously with his voice, doing great things which we do not comprehend.

 ⁶For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.

 ⁷He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

 ⁸And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.

 ⁹From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.

 ¹⁰By the breath of ùGod ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

 ¹¹Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;

 ¹²And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,

 ¹³Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

 ¹⁴Hearken unto this, Job; stand still and discern the wondrous works of ùGod.

 ¹⁵Dost thou know how +God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?

 ¹⁶Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?

 ¹⁷How thy garments become warm when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

 ¹⁸Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

 ¹⁹Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order [our words] by reason of darkness.

 ²⁰Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man [so] say, surely he shall be swallowed up.

 ²¹And now [men] see not the light as it gleameth, it is [hidden] in the skies. But the wind passeth by and cleareth them.

 ²²From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty.

 ²³The Almighty, we cannot find him out: excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.

 ²⁴Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.