Home Master Index
←Prev   Job 36 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


36:1  Elihu also proceeded and said:
36:2  “Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
36:3  I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4  For truly my words shall not be false; He that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
36:5  “Behold, God is mighty and despiseth not any; He is mighty in strength and wisdom.
36:6  He preserveth not the life of the wicked, but giveth right to the poor.
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.
36:8  And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction,
36:9  then He showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
36:10  He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
36:11  If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.
36:12  But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
36:13  “But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He bindeth them.
36:14  They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
36:15  He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
36:16  Even so would He have removed thee out of thy straits into a broad place where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
36:17  “But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold on thee.
36:18  Because there is wrath, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke; then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
36:19  Will He esteem thy riches? No, not gold nor all the forces of strength.
36:20  Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
36:21  Take heed, regard not iniquity, for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
36:22  Behold, God exalteth by His power. Who teacheth like Him?
36:23  Who hath enjoined Him His way? Or who can say, ‘Thou hast wrought iniquity’?
36:24  “Remember that thou magnify His work, which men behold.
36:25  Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
36:26  Behold, God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out.
36:27  For He maketh small the drops of water; they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof,
36:28  which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
36:29  Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of His tabernacle?
36:30  Behold, He spreadeth His light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
36:31  For by them judgeth He the people; He giveth meat in abundance.
36:32  With clouds He covereth the light, and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh between.
36:33  The noise thereof showeth concerning it; the cattle also, concerning the vapor.