And Elihu added this and said,
以利户又接着说，

Bear with me a little, and I will show you; / For there is more to say for God.
你再容我片时，我就指示你；因我还有话为神说。

I will bring my knowledge from afar / And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
我要将所知道的从远处引来，将公义归给造我的主。

For truly my words are not false; / One perfect in knowledge is with you.
我的言语真不虚谎；有一位知识全备的与你同在。

Indeed, God is mighty and does not despise; / He is mighty in strength of understanding.
看哪，神有大能，并不藐视人；祂大有智慧的能力。

He does not preserve the wicked man alive, / But gives justice to the afflicted.
祂不容恶人存活，却为困苦人伸冤。

He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; / And with kings on the throne, / He sets them forever, and they are exalted.
祂的眼目时常看顾义人，祂使他们永远和君王同坐宝座，他们就得着高举。

And if they are bound in fetters, / If they are caught in the cords of affliction,
他们若被锁链捆住，被苦难的绳索缠住，

He shows them their work / And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly.
祂就把他们的作为和过犯指示他们，叫他们知道自己行动骄傲。

He also opens their ear to instruction / And commands that they return from iniquity.
祂也开通他们的耳朵得受教训，吩咐他们离开罪孽转回。

If they hear and serve Him, / They will spend their days in prosperity / And their years in pleasantness.
他们若听从事奉祂，就必度日亨通，历年福乐。

But if they do not hear, they will pass away by the sword / And die without knowledge.
若不听从，就要被刀杀灭，无知无识而死。

But those who are profane in heart lay up anger; / They do not cry for help when He binds them.
但那心中不虔敬的人，积蓄怒气；神捆绑他们时，他们竟不呼救。

They die in youth, / And their life ends among the most defiled.
他们必在青年时死亡，与极污秽的人一样丧命。

He rescues the afflicted by their affliction / And opens their ear through oppression.
神借着困苦人所受的困苦救拔他们，借着他们所受的欺压开通他们的耳朵。

Indeed He allures you from the jaws of distress / Into a spacious place, where there is no constraint; / And what is upon your table is full of fatness.
神也必引你出离患难的虎口，进入宽阔不狭窄之地；摆在你席上的，必满有肥甘。

But you are filled with the judgment of the wicked; / Judgment and litigation have taken hold of you.
但你满有恶人所当受的审判；判断和刑罚抓住了你。

Beware lest wrath allures you into scoffing, / And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
不可容忿怒触动你侮慢神，也不可因赎价大就偏行。

Will your cry keep you from being in distress, / Or all the forces of your strength?
你的呼救，或是你一切的势力，能叫你不受患难么？

Do not long for the night, / When people are taken from their place.
不要切慕黑夜，就是众民在本处被除灭的时候。

Take heed; do not turn toward iniquity; / For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
你要谨慎，不可转向罪孽；因你选择罪孽，过于选择苦难。

Indeed, God is exalted in His power: / Who is a teacher like Him?
看哪，神因自己的能力被高举：教训人的，有谁像祂？

Who has appointed His way for Him? / And who says, You have done wrong?
谁派定祂的道路？谁说，你所行的不义？

Remember to magnify His work, / Of which men sing.
你要记得称赞祂所行的为大，就是人所歌颂的。

All mankind has gazed on it; / Man beholds it from afar.
祂所行的，万人都看见；世人都从远处观看。

Indeed, God is great, and we do not know Him; / The number of His years we also cannot search out.
看哪，神为大，我们不能知晓；祂的年数不能测度。

For He draws up the drops of water / Which distill into rain from His mist,
祂吸取水点，这水点从祂的云雾中滴下成雨；

Which the skies pour down / And drop upon man abundantly.
云霓将雨落下，沛然降与世人。

Can they indeed understand the spreading of the clouds, / The thunderings of His pavilion?
人真能明白云彩如何铺张，神的帷幕如何发出雷声么？

Indeed, He scatters His lightning around Him / And covers the roots of the sea.
祂将闪电布散在自己四围，又遮覆海底。

For by these He judges the peoples; / He gives food in abundance.
祂用这些审判众民，且赐丰富的粮食。

He fills His hands with lightning / And commands it to strike the mark.
祂以闪电遮手，命闪电击中目标。

Its noise tells of Him; / The cattle as well tell concerning Him who is coming.
所发的雷声将祂指明；牲畜也指明祂要来了。