Job 36
1 Elihu also proceeded, and said:
Eliu also proceeded, and said:
2 Bear with me a little while, that I may show thee! For I have yet words in behalf of God.
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God’s behalf.
3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, And assert the justice of my Maker.
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
4 Truly my words shall not be false: A man of sound knowledge is before thee.
For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.
5 Behold, God is great, but despiseth not any; Great is he in strength of understanding.
God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.
6 He suffereth not the wicked to prosper, But rendereth justice to the oppressed.
But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous; But establisheth them for ever with kings on the throne, That they may be exalted.
He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, And holden in the cords of affliction,
And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
9 Then showeth he them their deeds, And how they have set him at defiance by their transgressions;
He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.
10 He also openeth their ears to admonition, And commandeth them to return from iniquity.
He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serve him, They spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
12 But if they obey not, they perish by the sword; They die in their own folly.
But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
13 The corrupt in heart treasure up wrath; They cry not to God, when he bindeth them.
Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
14 They die in their youth; They close their lives with the unclean.
Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
15 But he delivereth the poor in their distress; He openeth their ears in affliction.
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.
16 He will bring thee also from the jaws of distress To a broad place, where is no straitness; And the provision of thy table shall be full of fatness.
Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.
17 But if thou art full of the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice shall take hold of thee.
Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
18 For if wrath be with him, beware lest he take thee away by his stroke, So that a great ransom shall not save thee!
Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? No! neither thy gold, nor all the abundance of thy wealth.
Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
20 Long not thou for that night To which nations are taken away from their place.
Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
21 Take heed, turn not thine eyes to iniquity! For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
22 Behold, God is exalted in his power: Who is a teacher like him?
Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
23 Who hath prescribed to him his way? Or who can say to him, “Thou hast done wrong”?
Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou has wrought iniquity?
24 Forget not to magnify his work, Which men celebrate with songs.
Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.
25 All mankind gaze upon it; Mortals behold it from afar.
All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
26 Behold, God is great; we cannot know him, Nor search out the number of his years.
Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.
27 Lo! he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil rain from his vapor;
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
28 The clouds pour it down, And drop it upon man in abundance.
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
29 Who can understand the spreading of his clouds, And the rattling of his pavilion?
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
30 Behold, he spreadeth around himself his light, And he clotheth himself with the depths of the sea.
And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
31 By these he punisheth nations, And by these he giveth food in abundance.
For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
32 His hands he covereth with lightning; He giveth it commandment against an enemy.
In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
33 His thunder maketh him known; Yea, to the herds, as he ascendeth on high.
He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.
