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34 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
2 Hear my words, O ye chachamim; and give ear unto me, ye that have da’as.
3 For the ozen trieth words, as the mouth tasteth food.
4 Let us choose for ourselves what is mishpat (right); let us know among ourselves what is tov.
5 For Iyov hath said, I am innocent; and El hath taken away my mishpat (right).
6 I declare the mishpat (case) against me a lie; though without peysha, my arrow wound is incurable.
7 What gever is like Iyov, who drinketh up the scorn [of his friends] like mayim?
8 Who goeth in chaverah with the po’alei aven (workers of iniquity, evildoers), and walketh with anshei resha.
9 For he hath said, It profiteth a gever nothing that he should please Elohim.
10 Therefore pay heed unto me ye anashei levav (men of understanding); far be it from El, that He should do evil, and from Shaddai, that He should do wrong.
11 For the po’al adam (work of a man) shall He repay unto him, and make every man to find according to the man’s ways.
12 Yea, surely El will not do wickedly, neither will Shaddai pervert mishpat (justice).
13 Who hath given Him right to rule the earth? Or who hath appointed Him over the tevel?
14 If He should so determine, if He gather unto Himself His Ruach and His Neshamah,
15 All basar would perish together, and adam would return unto aphar.
16 If now thou hast binah, hear this: pay heed to the kol (voice) of my words.
17 Shall even one that hateth mishpat (right) govern? And wilt thou condemn Him that is Tzaddik and Kabir (the Mighty One)?
18 Is it fit to say to a melech, Thou art beli’ya’al? And to nobles, Ye are rasha.
19 Who shows no partiality to sarim (princes), nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the ma’aseh (work) of His hands.
20 In a moment shall they die, and at chatzot lailah the people shall be shaken, and pass away, and the mighty shall be taken away without human hand.
21 For His eyes are upon the darkhei ish and He seeth all his goings.
22 There is no choshech, nor tzalmavet, where the po’alei aven (evildoers) may hide themselves.
23 For He does not need to consider an ish further for anyone to go before El in mispat (judgment).
24 He shall break in pieces kabirim (mighty men) without investigation, and sets acherim (others) in their place.
25 Therefore He knoweth their works, and He overthroweth them in the lailah, so that they are crushed.
26 He striketh them as resha’im in the open sight of others;
27 Because they turned back from following Him, and would not regard any of His drakhim;
28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto Him, and He heareth the cry of the aniyim.
29 When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? When He hideth His panim, who then can behold Him? Whether it be a nation, or an individual only?
30 That the chanef (hypocrite) reign not, nor those who ensnare the people.
31 For has anyone said unto El, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more;
32 Teach Thou me what I see not; im (if) I have done iniquity, I will do no more?
33 Will He then recompense to suit you, just because you disavow it? Thou must choose, not I; therefore speak that of which thou hast da’as.
34 Let anshei levav (men of understanding) say to me, and let a gever chacham who pays heed unto me say,
35 Iyov hath spoken without da’as, and his words were without seichel.
36 Iyov ought to be tried unto the limit, because his answers are those of anshei aven.
37 For he addeth peysha unto his chattat, he clappeth his hands [shaking fist at G-d] among us, and multiplieth his words against El.
35 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 Thinkest thou this to be mishpat (right, just), that thou saidst, Tzidki meEl (I am cleared, in the right, justified before G-d)?
3 Ki (yet) thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned [see 9:22]?
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto Shomayim, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against Him? Or if thy peysha’im be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?
7 If thou be tzaddik (righteous), what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He of thine yad?
8 Thy resha (wickedness) may hurt an ish as thou art; and thy tzedek may profit the ben adam.
9 They cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the zero’a of the rabbim.
10 But none saith, Where is Eloah Osai (G-d my Maker), Who giveth zemirot balailah (songs in the night);
11 Who teacheth us more than the behamot eretz, and maketh us wiser than the oph HaShomayim?
12 There they cry out, but none giveth answer, because of the ga’on (pride, arrogance) of ra’im (wicked men).
13 Surely El will not hear shav (vanity), neither will Shaddai regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou cannot see Him, yet Din (the court case) is before Him; therefore trust thou, waiting for Him,
15 though ye say His anger does not pakad (visit, punish) anything and that He does not regard wickedness much;
16 Therefore doth Iyov open his mouth hevel (in vain); he multiplieth words without da’as.
36 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 Bear with me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on behalf of Eloah.
3 I will get my da’as from afar, and will ascribe tzedek to my Maker.
4 For truly my words shall not be sheker; one that is tamim (complete) in da’as is among thee.
5 See, El is kabir (mighty), and despiseth not any; He is kabir in ko’ach lev (strength of understanding).
6 He preserveth not the life of the rasha, but giveth mishpat to the aniyim.
7 He withdraweth not His eyes from the tzaddik, but with melachim are they on the kisse; yea, He doth establish them lanetzach (forever), and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in chains, and be held fast in chevlei oni (cords of affliction),
9 Then He showeth them their work, and their peysha’im that they have done arrogantly.
10 He openeth also their ozen to musar (discipline), and commandeth that they make teshuvah and turn from evil.
11 If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their yamim in tov (prosperity), and their shanim in contentment.
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without da’as.
13 But the chanefei lev (irreligious in heart, hypocrites) incur wrath; they do not cry for help when He bindeth them.
14 They die in youth, their nefesh among the kedeshim (cult male prostitutes, youthful lusts).
15 He delivereth the oni in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16 Even so would He have removed thee out of the tzar (distress) into a rachav (broad place), free from restriction, to the comfort of thy shulchan, full of choice food.
17 But thou hast been fixated on the din of the rasha; din and mishpat take hold on thee.
18 Because there is chemah, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke; then a rav kopher (great ransom) cannot deliver thee.
19 Will He esteem thy riches? No, not zahav, nor all the forces of ko’ach.
20 Desire not halailah (the night), when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than oni.
22 See, El exalted by His ko’ach. Who is a moreh (teacher) like Him?
23 Who hath enjoined Him His derech? Or who can say, Thou hast done wrong?
24 Remember that thou must extol His work, of which anashim have sung praises.
25 Kol adam has seen it; enosh beholds it afar off.
26 See, El is great, and we know Him not, neither can the mispar of His shanim be searched out.
27 For He draws up the drops of mayim; He distills His mist as matar;
28 Which the clouds do drop and distill upon adam abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the thunderings of His sukkah?
30 See, He spreadeth His ohr upon it, and covereth the depths of the yam.
31 For by them governeth He the amim (nations); He giveth okhel in abundance.
32 His hands He covers with the ohr (lightning), and commandeth it to strike the mark.
33 The thunder thereof showeth concerning Him; the storm tells His indignant af (wrath).
4 Therefore, since it is by the chesed of Hashem that we have this sherut, this kehunah, [2C 3:16] we are undaunted. [TEHILLIM 18:45; YESHAYAH 40:31]
2 But we renounced the hidden things of bushah (shame), not going about with remiyah (deceit) nor falsifying the dvar Hashem. Rather by the manifestation of HaEmes we present ourselves to every man’s matzpun in the sight of Hashem. [2C 2:17; 1Th 2:5]
3 But if indeed our Besuras HaGeulah is nistar (hidden), it is nistar among the ones perishing, [2C 1:18]
4 In whose case the g-d of the Olam Hazeh (Ep 2:2) blinded the minds of the ones without emunah, so the illumination of the Besuras HaGeulah of the kavod of Moshiach, who is the demut of Hashem, [Co 1:15; MJ 1:3] would not shine on them.
5 For we preach not ourselves but Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua and ourselves as your avadim (servants) for Yehoshua’s sake. [2C 1:24]
6 Because Hashem is the One who said,"Let Ohr shine out of choshech" [BERESHIS 1:3; YESHAYAH 9:2] who shone in our levavot for an illumination of the da’as of the kavod of Hashem in the face of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. [2C 3:18]
7 Now we have this otzar (treasure) in earthen vessels [2C 5:1] that the excellence of the ko’ach may be of Hashem and not of us. [IYOV 4:19; YESHAYAH 64:8; SHOFETIM 7:2]
8 Being oppressed on every side [2C 1:8; 7;5] but not being crushed, being perplexed but not in ye’ush (despair, atzvut),
9 Being persecuted but not forsaken, being cast down but not destroyed, [TEHILLIM 37:24; MISHLE 24:16]
10 Always bearing about the dying of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in my basar that also the Chayyim of Moshiach in geviyyateinu might be manifested. [BERESHIS 47:18; TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11]
11 For always we, the ones living, are being given over to mavet because of Moshiach [Ro 8:36; 1C 15:31] that also the Chayyim of Moshiach may be manifested in our mortal basar.
12 So then Mavet works in us but Chayyim in you.
44 (For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. A maskil). We have heard with our oznayim, O Elohim, Avoteinu have told us, what po’al (work) Thou hast wrought in their days, in the times of old.
2 (3) How Thou didst drive out the Goyim with Thy Yad, but plantedst them; how Thou didst afflict the people, but for them Thou madest room.
3 (4) For they got not eretz in possession by their own cherev, neither did their own zero’a save them, but Thy Yamin (Right Hand), and Thine Zero’a, and the ohr (light) of Thy countenance, because Thou favored them.
4 (5) Thou art my Melech, O Elohim; command yeshu’ot (deliverances) for Ya’akov.
5 (6) Through Thee will we push down our enemies; through Thy Shem will we trample them under that rise up against us.
6 (7) For I will not trust in my keshet (bow), neither shall my cherev save me.
7 (8) But Thou hast saved us from tzareinu (our enemies), and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 (9) In Elohim we boast kol hayom, and praise Thy Shem l’olam (forever). Selah.
10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall leave; indeed, strife and kalon (shame) shall cease.
11 He that loveth tahor lev (a pure heart), for the chen (grace) on his sfatayim (lips) the Melech shall be his re’a (friend).
12 The eynayim of Hashem preserve da’as, and He overthroweth the devarim of the boged (unfaithful, treacherous, traitor).
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