32 I look behind me, do thou shew me,

If I have done evil, I will not again.

33 Thy works he hath requited thee,
But thou hast despised (his correction.)
For thou choosest,* and not I,

And what thou knowest say.

34 Let men of understanding speak to me. And a wise man listen to me.

35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, And his words are without prudence.

36 I am willing that Job should be tried even to victory, Because of his answers for wicked men.

37 For he has added to his sin, transgression,
He has clapped his hands among us,
And multiplied his words against GOD.

* Thou choosest.-Perhaps this should be, so thou shalt choose, viz. words: it is now thy turn to speak.

CHAP. XXXV.

1 AND Elihu spake and said,

2 Hast thou thought rightly in this?
Thou saidst, "I am more just than God.”

3 Because thou saidst, "What should I profit by thee? "What should I gain more than by my sin "

4 I will return thee an answer,

And thy companions with thee.

5 Look at the heavens, and behold,

And observe the conflicting (ethers,) they are higher than thou,

6 If thou sin, how dost thou affect him?

If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

7 If thou be righteous, what dost thou give him? Or what will he take at thy hand?

8 To man like thyself is thine iniquity,
And to the son of earth, thy righteousness.

9 From the multitude of oppressors, they complain, They cry aloud, from the arm of the mighty.

10 But none saith, Where is GoD my maker? Who giveth imaginations in the night;

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven.

12 Then they cry, and he answereth not, Because of the swelling of the wicked.

13 Surely GoD will not listen to vanity, And the ALMIGHTY will not behold it.

14 Though thou say, "He will not see us," Judgment is before him, and he will execute it.

15 But now because he hath not visited his Nor taken notice of his great excess;

anger,

16 Job openeth his mouth in vanity,

And multiplieth words without knowledge.

CHAP. XXXVI.

1 AND Elihu added and said,

2 Attend to me awhile,

And I will shew thee there are yet words for GOD.

3 I will bring my knowledge of distant things, And ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4 For verily my words are not false,

They are perfect in knowledge with thee.

5 Behold! GoD is abundant, and will not despise, Abundant in strength of understanding,

6 He will not preserve the life of the wicked, And he will give justice to the oppressed.

7 He will not withhold his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne (doth he place them,) And establish them for a continuance, and they are exalted.

8 And if they be bound in fetters,

Or holden in cords of affliction;

9 Then he declareth to them their works, And their transgressions, wherein they have rebelled;

10 And he openeth their ears to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

11 If they obey, and serve him,

He will fill up their days with good,

And their years with pleasures.

12 But if they obey not, they shall pass on the javelin, They shall expire for want of knowledge.

13 The polluted in heart heap up wrath, They cry not when he bindeth them:

14 Their souls shall die in youth,

And their lives among the unclean.

15 He delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, And openeth their ears in oppression.

16 And surely he would have turned thee away from

the strait,