Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.

For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist,

And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.

Behold, God is exalted in His power; who teaches like Him?

If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.

He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.

Elihu went on and said,

Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise; He is mighty in strength of heart.

He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.

But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them.

And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,

For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.

Remember that you magnify His work of which men have sung;

Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites.

For by them He judges the people; He gives plenty of food.

He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from iniquity.

He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;

For truly my words are not false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

its thunder declares concerning Him, and the cattle, concerning what is coming.

Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy?

Wait for me a little, and I will show you that there are yet words for God.

I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.

which the clouds pour down and drop on man plentifully.

then He shows them their work, and their sins, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

He will not keep alive one who is wicked, but gives right to the afflicted.

every man has seen it; man may see it afar off.

Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength.

But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold;

Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea.

Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong?

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.