Job - Chapter 36 | New King James Version

  • 1. Elihu also proceeded and said:
  • 2. "Bear with me a little, and I will show you That there are yet words to speak on God's behalf.
  • 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will 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, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
  • 6. He does not preserve the life of the wicked, But gives justice to the oppressed.
  • 7. He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, And they are exalted.
  • 8. And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction,
  • 9. Then He tells them their work and their transgressions-- That they have acted defiantly.
  • 10. He also opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they turn from iniquity.
  • 11. If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
  • 12. But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge. {cf2super [53]}
  • 13. "But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; They do not cry for help when He binds them.
  • 14. They die in youth, And their life ends among the perverted persons. {cf2super [54]}
  • 15. He delivers the poor in their affliction, And opens their ears in oppression.
  • 16. "Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress, Into a broad place where there is no restraint; And what is set on your table would be full of richness.
  • 17. But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you.
  • 18. Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.
  • 19. Will your riches, Or all the mighty forces, Keep you from distress?
  • 20. Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
  • 21. Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
  • 22. "Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
  • 23. Who has assigned Him His way, Or who has said, 'You have done wrong'?
  • 24. "Remember to magnify His work, Of which men have sung.
  • 25. Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.
  • 26. "Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
  • 27. For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,
  • 28. Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.
  • 29. Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
  • 30. Look, He scatters his light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea.
  • 31. For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
  • 32. He covers His hands with lightning, And commands it to strike.
  • 33. His thunder declares it, The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.
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