The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?

Who hath said to a king — 'Worthless,' Unto princes — 'Wicked?'

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands [are] all of them.

[In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.

For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.

There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,

He breaketh the mighty — no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.

Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.

As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.

Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, [It is] the same.

From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?'

By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused — That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.

Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.

Job — not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.

My Father! let Job be tried — unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.

And Elihu answereth and saith: —

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said — 'My righteousness [is] more than God's?'

For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

And none said, 'Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.

And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

And Elihu addeth and saith: —

Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.

I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.

Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.

He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place — no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld — because of fury,

Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

Take heed — do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him — a teacher?

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.

When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.

Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place.

Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth.

Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light [is] over the skirts of the earth.

After it roar doth a voice — He thundereth with the voice of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His voice is heard.

God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.

For to snow He saith, 'Be [on] the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.

Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.

And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.

From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds — cold,

From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness — He doth cause it to come.

Hear this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.

Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

How thy garments [are] warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds — strong as a hard mirror!

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.

And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it [is] in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.

From the golden north it cometh, Beside God [is] fearful honour.

The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: —

Who [is] this — darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?