Chapter
Job 36

Book of Job - Chapter 36

Job 36:1

Elihu also continued, and said,

Job 36:2

"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.

Job 36:3

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 36:4

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Job 36:5

"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Job 36:6

He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

Job 36:7

He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Job 36:8

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Job 36:9

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

Job 36:10

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:11

If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Job 36:12

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

Job 36:13

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

Job 36:14

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Job 36:15

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

Job 36:16

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

Job 36:17

"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Job 36:18

Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Job 36:19

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Job 36:20

Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Job 36:21

Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Job 36:22

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Job 36:23

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

Job 36:24

"Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.

Job 36:25

All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

Job 36:26

Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Job 36:27

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

Job 36:28

Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

Job 36:29

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 36:30

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:31

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

Job 36:32

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

Job 36:33

Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.

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