Job - Chapter 36 | English Standard Version

  • 1. And Elihu continued, and said:
  • 2. "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
  • 3. I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
  • 4. For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
  • 5. "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
  • 6. He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
  • 7. He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
  • 8. And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
  • 9. then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
  • 10. He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
  • 11. If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
  • 12. But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
  • 13. "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
  • 14. They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
  • 15. He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
  • 16. He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
  • 17. "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
  • 18. Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
  • 19. Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
  • 20. Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
  • 21. Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
  • 22. Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
  • 23. Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?
  • 24. "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
  • 25. All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
  • 26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
  • 27. For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,
  • 28. which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.
  • 29. Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
  • 30. Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
  • 31. For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
  • 32. He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
  • 33. Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.
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