35Elihu continued and said: 2“Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’ 3If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ 4I will answer you and your friends with you. 5Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you. 6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? 7If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand? 8Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.
9“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. 10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night, 11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ 12There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers. 13Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
14How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! 15And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression, 16Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge.”
36Elihu continued and said: 2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf. 3I will bring my knowledge from far away, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker. 4For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5“Surely God is mighty and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding. 6He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right. 7He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted. 8And if 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 shall 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 their youth, and their life ends in shame.
15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity. 16He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness. 17“But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked; judgment and justice seize you. 18Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing, and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside. 19Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or will all the force of your strength? 20Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place. 21Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction. 22See, 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 mortals have sung. 25All people have looked on it; everyone watches it from far away. 26Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable. 27For he draws up the drops of water; he distills his mist in rain, 28which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly. 29Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 30See, he scatters his lightning around him and covers the roots of the sea. 31For by these he governs peoples; he gives food in abundance. 32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. 33Its crashing tells about him; he is jealous with anger against iniquity.
From the oremus Bible Browser https://bible.oremus.org v2.9.2 30 June 2021.