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Job 36

¹Be patient and listen a little longer to what I am saying on God's behalf.

³My knowledge is wide; I will use what I know to show that God, my Creator, is just.

⁴Nothing I say to you is false; you see before you a truly wise man.

⁵How strong God is! He despises no one; there is nothing he doesn't understand.

⁶He does not let sinners live on, and he always treats the poor with justice.

⁷He protects those who are righteous; he allows them to rule like kings and lets them be honored forever.

⁸But if people are bound in chains, suffering for what they have done,

⁹God shows them their sins and their pride.

¹⁰He makes them listen to his warning to turn away from evil.

¹¹If they obey God and serve him, they live out their lives in peace and prosperity.

¹²But if not, they will die in ignorance and cross the stream into the world of the dead.

¹³Those who are godless keep on being angry, and even when punished, they don't pray for help.

¹⁴They die while they are still young, worn out by a life of disgrace.

¹⁵But God teaches people through suffering and uses distress to open their eyes.

¹⁶God brought you out of trouble, and let you enjoy security; your table was piled high with food.

¹⁷But now you are being punished as you deserve.

¹⁸Be careful not to let bribes deceive you, or riches lead you astray.

¹⁹It will do you no good to cry out for help; all your strength can't help you now.

²⁰Don't wish for night to come, the time when nations will perish.

²¹Be careful not to turn to evil; your suffering was sent to keep you from it.

²²Remember how great is God's power; he is the greatest teacher of all.

²³No one can tell God what to do or accuse him of doing evil.

²⁴He has always been praised for what he does; you also must praise him.

²⁵Everyone has seen what he has done; but we can only watch from a distance.

²⁶We cannot fully know his greatness or count the number of his years.

²⁷It is God who takes water from the earth and turns it into drops of rain.

²⁸He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.

²⁹No one knows how the clouds move or how the thunder roars through the sky, where God dwells.

³⁰He sends lightning through all the sky, but the depths of the sea remain dark.

³¹This is how he feeds the people and provides an abundance of food.

³²He seizes the lightning with his hands and commands it to hit the mark.

³³Thunder announces the approaching storm, and the cattle know it is coming.