36Job 36

1Elihu also proceeded, and said,Select Job 36:1

2Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.Select Job 36:2

3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.Select Job 36:3

4For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.Select Job 36:4

5Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.Select Job 36:5

6He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.Select Job 36:6

7He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.Select Job 36:7

8And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;Select Job 36:8

9Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.Select Job 36:9

10He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.Select Job 36:10

11If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.Select Job 36:11

12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.Select Job 36:12

13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.Select Job 36:13

14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.Select Job 36:14

15He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.Select Job 36:15

16Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no narrow place; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.Select Job 36:16

17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.Select Job 36:17

18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.Select Job 36:18

19Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.Select Job 36:19

20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.Select Job 36:20

21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.Select Job 36:21

22Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?Select Job 36:22

23Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?Select Job 36:23

24Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.Select Job 36:24

25Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.Select Job 36:25

26Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.Select Job 36:26

27For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:Select Job 36:27

28Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.Select Job 36:28

29Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?Select Job 36:29

30Behold, he spreads his light on it, and covers the bottom of the sea.Select Job 36:30

31For by them judges he the people; he gives meat in abundance.Select Job 36:31

32With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.Select Job 36:32

33The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.Select Job 36:33