Job 35-37 (Young's Literal Translation)

Job 35

 ¹And Elihu answereth and saith: --

 ²This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness [is] more than God's?'

 ³For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

 ⁴I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

 ⁵Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

 ⁶If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

 ⁷If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

 ⁸For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

 ⁹Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

 ¹⁰And none said, `Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

 ¹¹Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

 ¹²There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

 ¹³Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

 ¹⁴Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.

 ¹⁵And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

 ¹⁶And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

Job 36

 ¹And Elihu addeth and saith: --

 ²Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.

 ³I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

 ⁴For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.

 ⁵Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.

 ⁶He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

 ⁷He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

 ⁸And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

 ⁹Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

 ¹⁰And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

 ¹¹If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

 ¹²And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

 ¹³And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

 ¹⁴Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

 ¹⁵He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

 ¹⁶And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

 ¹⁷And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

 ¹⁸Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

 ¹⁹Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

 ²⁰Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

 ²¹Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.

 ²²Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher?

 ²³Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'

 ²⁴Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

 ²⁵All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

 ²⁶Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.

 ²⁷When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

 ²⁸Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

 ²⁹Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

 ³⁰Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

 ³¹For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

 ³²By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

 ³³He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.

Job 37

 ¹Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place.

 ²Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth.

 ³Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light [is] over the skirts of the earth.

 ⁴After it roar doth a voice -- He thundereth with the voice of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His voice is heard.

 ⁵God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.

 ⁶For to snow He saith, `Be [on] the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.

 ⁷Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.

 ⁸And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.

 ⁹From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds -- cold,

 ¹⁰From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

 ¹¹Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

 ¹²And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

 ¹³Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He doth cause it to come.

 ¹⁴Hear this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.

 ¹⁵Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

 ¹⁶Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

 ¹⁷How thy garments [are] warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

 ¹⁸Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

 ¹⁹Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

 ²⁰Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.

 ²¹And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it [is] in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.

 ²²From the golden north it cometh, Beside God [is] fearful honour.

 ²³The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

 ²⁴Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.