Job Chapter 36
| 1 | Elihu also proceeded, and said, | 2 | Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. | 3 | I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. | 4 | For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. | 5 | Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. | 6 | He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. | 7 | He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. | 8 | And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; | 9 | Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. | 10 | He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return 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 obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. | 13 | But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. | 14 | They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. | 15 | He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. | 16 | Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness. | 17 | But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. | 18 | Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. | 19 | Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. | 20 | Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. | 21 | Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. | 22 | Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? | 23 | Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? | 24 | Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. | 25 | Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. | 26 | Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. | 27 | For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: | 28 | Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. | 29 | Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? | 30 | Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. | 31 | For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. | 32 | With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. | 33 | The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. |