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Job 36

¹Elihu also proceeded, and said,

²Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.

³I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

⁴For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

⁵Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.

⁶He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted their right.

⁷He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

⁸And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;

⁹Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁰He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

¹¹If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

¹²But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

¹³But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

¹⁴They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.

¹⁵He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

¹⁶Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

¹⁷But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold on thee.

¹⁸For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

¹⁹Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength?

²⁰Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

²¹Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

²²Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

²³Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

²⁴Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

²⁵All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.

²⁶Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

²⁷For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

²⁸Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.

²⁹Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

³⁰Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

³¹For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

³²He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

³³The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.