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¹ And Elihu added and said: - ² Restrain thyself for me a little, and I will shew thee, that, yet - for GOD, there is justification,³ I will bring my knowledge from afar, and, to my Maker, will I attribute righteousness.⁴ For, of a truth - not false, are my words, One of competent knowledge, is with thee.

⁵ Lo! GOD, is mighty, yet will he not despise, Mighty in vigour of mind;⁶ He will not keep alive one who is lawless, but, the right of oppressed ones, will he grant;⁷ He will not withdraw - from a righteous one - his eyes, - but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.⁸ But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,⁹ Then hath he declared to them their deed, and their transgressions - that they were wont to behave themselves proudly;¹⁰ Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said - that they should turn from iniquity.¹¹ If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;¹² But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.¹³ Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.¹⁴ Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.

¹⁵ He would deliver the humbled in his humiliation, and would uncover - in oppression - their ear.¹⁶ Yea he might even have allured thee - out of the mouth of straitness, into a wide space - no narrowness there, - and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.¹⁷ But, with the plea of a lawless one, thou art full, Plea and sentence, will take fast hold.¹⁸ Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with a stroke, Then let not, a great ransom, mislead thee.¹⁹ Will he value thy riches? Nay not precious ore, nor all the forces of strength.²⁰ Do not pant for the night, when peoples disappear from their place.²¹ Beware, do not turn unto iniquity, For, this, thou hast chosen rather than affliction.²² Lo, GOD, exalteth himself by his strength, Who like him doth teach?²³ Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?

²⁴ Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;²⁵ Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.²⁶ Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!²⁷ For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;²⁸ With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.²⁹ But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!³⁰ Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.³¹ For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:³² Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:³³ His rolling thunder telleth concerning him, - The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.