translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Elihu also proceeded, and said,


text: Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.


text: I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.


text: For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.


text: Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.


text: He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted their right.


text: He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.


text: And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;


text: Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.


text: He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.


text: If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.


text: But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.


text: But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.


text: They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.


text: He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.


text: Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.


text: But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold on thee.


text: For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.


text: Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength?


text: Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.


text: Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.


text: Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?


text: Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?


text: Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.


text: All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.


text: Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.


text: For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,


text: Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.


text: Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?


text: Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.


text: For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.


text: He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.


text: The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.