• Job 36:1

    Elihu also proceeded, and said,

  • Job 36:2

    Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

  • Job 36:3

    I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

  • Job 36:4

    For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

  • Job 36:5

    Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.a

  • Job 36:6

    He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.b

  • Job 36:7

    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.

  • Job 36:8

    And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

  • Job 36:9

    Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

  • Job 36:10

    He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

  • Job 36:11

    If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

  • Job 36:12

    But if they obey not, they shall perishc by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

  • Job 36:13

    But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

  • Job 36:14

    Theyd die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

  • Job 36:15

    He delivereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

  • Job 36:16

    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.

  • Job 36:17

    But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

  • Job 36:18

    Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliverf thee.

  • Job 36:19

    Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

  • Job 36:20

    Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Job 36:21

    Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

  • Job 36:22

    Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

  • Job 36:23

    Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

  • Job 36:24

    Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

  • Job 36:25

    Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

  • Job 36:26

    Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

  • Job 36:27

    For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

  • Job 36:28

    Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

  • Job 36:29

    Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

  • Job 36:30

    Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottomg of the sea.

  • Job 36:31

    For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

  • Job 36:32

    With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

  • Job 36:33

    The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.h

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