Jó 36

1 Elihu also continued, and said,

2 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you;

for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

3 I will get my knowledge from afar,

and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4 For truly my words are not false.

One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5 "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.

He is mighty in strength of understanding.

6 He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,

but gives justice to the afflicted.

7 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,

but with kings on the throne,

he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

8 If they are bound in fetters,

and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

9 then he shows them their work,

and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

10 He also opens their ears to instruction,

and commands that they return from iniquity.

11 If they listen and serve him,

they will spend their days in prosperity,

and their years in pleasures.

12 But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;

they will die without knowledge.

13 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.

They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

14 They die in youth.

Their life perishes among the unclean.

15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,

and opens their ear in oppression.

16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,

into a wide place, where there is no restriction.

That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.

Judgment and justice take hold of you.

18 Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,

neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress,

or all the might of your strength?

20 Don’t desire the night,

when people are cut off in their place.

21 Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;

for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

22 Behold, God is exalted in his power.

Who is a teacher like him?

23 Who has prescribed his way for him?

Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?

24 "Remember that you magnify his work,

about which men have sung.

25 All men have looked on it.

Man sees it afar off.

26 Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him.

The number of his years is unsearchable.

27 For he draws up the drops of water,

which distill in rain from his vapor,

28 which the skies pour down

and which drop on man abundantly.

29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds

and the thunderings of his pavilion?

30 Behold, he spreads his light around him.

He covers the bottom of the sea.

31 For by these he judges the people.

He gives food in abundance.

32 He covers his hands with the lightning,

and commands it to strike the mark.

33 Its noise tells about him,

and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.

Ka Whakanuia e Erihu te Painga o te Atua

1 I kōrero anō a Erihu, i mea:

2 "Tukua ahau, kia iti nei, ā, ka whakaatu ahau ki a koe;

he kupu anō hoki āku mō tā te Atua.

3 Ka tīkina atu e ahau tōku mōhio i tawhiti,

ka whakatikaia e ahau tā tōku Kaihanga.

4 E kore rawa hoki; āku kupu e teka;

tēnei kei a koe te tangata kua tino nui tōna mātauranga.

5 "Nanā, he pakari te Atua, e kore anō ia e whakahāwea;

pakari tonu te kaha o tōna mātauranga.

6 E kore te tangata kino e whakaorangia e ia;

māna te hunga mate e whiwhi ai ki ngā mea e tika ana mā rātou.

7 E kore e mutu tāna titiro ki te tangata tika;

engari ka whakanohoia ngātahitia rātou e ia

me ngā kīngi ki runga ki te torōna ake ake,

ā, ka whakanekehia ake hoki rātou.

8 Ki te mea kua herea rātou ki te mekameka,

mau pū i te rāhiri, arā i ngā mate,

9 ā, ka whakakitea e ia ki a rātou tā rātou mahi,

me ō rātou hē, i mea ai rātou i ngā mea whakapehapeha.

10 Ka whakapuaretia anō e ia ō rātou taringa ki te ako,

ā, ka kī kia hoki i te kino.

11 Ki te rongo rātou, ā, ka mahi ki a ia,

ka pau ō rātou rā i runga i te pai,

ō rātou tau i runga i ngā āhuareka.

12 Otirā, ki te kore rātou e rongo, ka ngaro rātou i te hoari,

hemo iho rātou, kāhore hoki he mātauranga.

13 "Ko te hunga whakapono kore ō rātou ngākau,

pūranga rawa i a rātou te riri;

kāhore ā rātou karanga āwhina ina herea rātou e ia.

14 Ka mate rātou i te taitamarikitanga,

ā, ka ngaro tō rātou ora i roto i te hunga poke.

15 Ko tāna he whakaora i te rawakore ina mate,

e whakapuaretia ana e ia ō rātou taringa ina tūkinotia.

16 Āe rā, me koe anō, tērā koe e riro i a ia

i roto i te kūititanga ki te wāhi whānui;

ā, kī tonu i te ngako te mea e whakatakotoria ki runga ki tāu tēpu.

17 "Otiia kī tonu koe i te tikanga a te tangata kino;

ā, mau pū koe i ngā tikanga, i te whakarite whakawā.

18 Nā, i te mea he riri tēnei, kia tūpato kei riro koe i te nui o āu rawa;

aua hoki koe e whakapeautia e te nui o te utu.

19 E ranea rānei ōu rawa, e kore ai koe e taka hē?

Ngā uaua katoa rānei o tōu kaha?

20 Kaua e hiahiatia te pō,

te wā e riro ai ngā tāngata i runga i tō rātou wāhi.

21 Kia tūpato, kaua e tahuri ki te kino;

ki tāu hoki he pai ake tēnei i ngā mate.

22 Nanā, ko te Atua, ko tōna kaha hei whakanui,

ko wai te kaiwhakaako hei rite mōna?

23 Ko wai te kaitohutohu i te ara mōna?

Ko wai hei mea, ‘Kua hē tāu mahi’?"

Ka Kauwhau a Erihu i te Rangatiratanga o te Atua

24 "Kia mahara kia whakanuia e koe tāna mahi,

e waiatatia nei e te tangata.

25 Kua tirohia nei e ngā tāngata katoa

e mātakitakina mai nei e te tangata i tawhiti.

26 Nanā, he nui te Atua, e kore anō e mōhiotia e tātou;

e kore anō hoki te maha o ōna tau e taea te rapu atu.

27 "Ko ia nei hei ngongo ake i ngā pata wai,

ka tauia i tōna kohu hei āwhā;

28 ka ringihia iho nei e ngā kapua,

ā, ka māturuturu nui ki runga ki te tangata.

29 Āe rā, e mōhiotia ana rānei e tētahi ngā horahanga o ngā kapua,

te ngangau o tōna tapenākara?

30 Nanā, e horahia ana e ia tōna mārama ā tawhio noa i a ia;

e hīpokina ana hoki e ia te takere o te moana.

31 Ko āna mea hoki ēnā hei whakawā mō ngā iwi,

nui tonu te kai e hōmai ana e ia.

32 E hīpokina ana e ia ōna ringa ki te uira,

ā, whakahaua iho e ia te wāhi e pā atu ai.

33 Hei kaiwhakaatu i a ia tōna haruru,

e waitohu ana hoki ki ngā kararehe i te tūpuhi meāke puta mai.