1 En El¡hu het voortgegaan en gesê:
2 Wag 'n bietjie op my, en ek sal u inlig; want daar is nog genoeg te sê tot eer van God.
3 Ek sal my kennis van ver af ophaal en aan my Skepper reg verskaf.
4 Want waarlik, my woorde is geen leuens nie; een wat volkome is in kennis, is by u.
5 Kyk, God is geweldig, nogtans ag Hy niks gering nie -- geweldig deur krag van verstand.
6 Hy laat die goddelose nie lewe nie, maar aan die ellendiges verskaf Hy reg.
7 Hy trek sy oë nie af van die regverdige nie, maar by konings op die troon laat Hy hulle sit vir altyd, sodat hulle verhoog is.
8 Maar as hulle in kettings geklink is, gevang word in bande van ellende,
9 dan gee Hy aan hulle hul dade te kenne en hul oortredinge, dat hul gedrag hoogmoedig was;
10 dan open Hy hulle oor vir die tugtiging en sê dat hulle moet terugkeer van ongeregtigheid.
11 As hulle luister en Hom dien, dan bring hulle hul dae deur in voorspoed en hul jare in aangenaamheid.
12 Maar as hulle nie luister nie, dan kom hulle om deur die spies, en hulle blaas die asem uit sonder kennis.
13 Maar die goddelose van hart koester nyd; hulle roep nie om hulp as Hy hulle bind nie.
14 So sterwe dan hulle siel in die jeug en hulle lewe soos die van skandseuns.
15 Hy red die ellendige deur sy ellende en open hulle oor deur verdrukking.
16 So lok Hy u dan ook uit die mond van die nood na 'n onbeperkte ruimte en na die behaaglikheid van u tafel wat vol is van vetspys.
17 Maar u is vol van die oordeel oor die goddelose: oordeel en strafgerig sal u aangryp.
18 Want pas op dat woede u nie verlok by die bestraffing en die grootheid van die losprys u nie verlei nie.
19 Sal Hy u geroep om hulp voorbring waar daar geen nood is nie, en alle moontlike kragsinspanning van u?
20 Smag nie na die oordeelsnag wat volke wegneem uit hulle plek nie.
21 Neem u in ag, wend u nie tot ongeregtigheid nie; want dit verkies u liewer as ellende.
22 Kyk, God handel verhewe in sy krag; wie is 'n leermeester soos Hy?
23 Wie het Hom sy weg voorgeskrywe? En wie het gesê: U het onreg gedoen?
24 Dink daaraan dat u sy werk moet verheerlik waar die mense van sing.
25 Al die mense sien dit met welgevalle aan, die sterfling aanskou dit van ver.
26 Kyk, God is groot en onbegryplik vir ons; die getal van sy jare is onnaspeurlik.
27 Want Hy trek waterdruppels af; hulle sif neer by sy mistige weer as reën
28 wat die wolke laat neerstroom, laat afdrup op baie mense.
29 Ja, kan iemand die uitspreiding van die wolke verstaan, die gekraak van sy hut?
30 Kyk, Hy sprei sy lig oor Hom uit, en die dieptes van die see oordek Hy.
31 Want daarmee oordeel Hy die volke, gee Hy voedsel in oorvloed.
32 Altwee sy hande oordek Hy met weerlig en gee daaraan bevel teen die aanvaller.
33 Sy donderstem kondig Hom aan, die vee selfs dat Hy optrek.
1 And Elihu went on to say,
2 Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.
3 I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.
5 Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
6 His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;
7 Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.
8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
9 Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.
10 Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.
11 If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
12 But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
13 Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.
15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.
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21 Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
22 Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?
23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
24 See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.
25 All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.
26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.
29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?
30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.
31 For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.
32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
33 The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.