Job - Chapter 36 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Elihu also proceeded, and said,
  • 2. Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.
  • 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
  • 4. For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
  • 5. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.
  • 6. He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted {cf15i their} right.
  • 7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
  • 8. And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
  • 9. Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
  • 10. He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
  • 11. If they hearken and serve {cf15i him}, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
  • 12. But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
  • 13. But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.
  • 14. They die in youth, And their life {cf15i perisheth} among the unclean.
  • 15. He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
  • 16. Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
  • 17. But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold {cf15i on thee}.
  • 18. For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
  • 19. Will thy cry avail, {cf15i that thou be} not in distress, Or all the forces of {cf15i thy} strength?
  • 20. Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
  • 21. Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
  • 22. Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?
  • 23. Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
  • 24. Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.
  • 25. All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
  • 26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
  • 27. For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
  • 28. Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
  • 29. Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
  • 30. Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
  • 31. For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
  • 32. He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
  • 33. The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning {cf15i the storm} that cometh up.
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