36Job 36

CHAP JOBVI. / 1 Elihu sheweth how God is iust in his wayes. 16 How Iobs sinnes hinder Gods blessings. 24 Gods works are to be magnified.

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

2Suffer mee a little, and I will shewe thee, that I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.Select Job 36:2

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

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

5Behold, God is mightie, and despiseth not any: he is mightie in strength and wisedome.Select Job 36:5

6He preserueth not the life of the wicked: but giueth right to the poore.Select Job 36:6

7Hee withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne, yea he doth establish them for euer, and they are exalted.Select Job 36:7

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

9Then hee sheweth them their worke, and their transgressions, that they haue exceeded.Select Job 36:9

10He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth that they returne from iniquitie.Select Job 36:10

11If they obey and serue him, they shall spend their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeeres 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 heape vp wrath: they crie not when he bindeth them.Select Job 36:13

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

15He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their eares in oppression.Select Job 36:15

16Euen so would he haue remooued thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitnesse, and that which should be set on thy table, should be full of fatnesse.Select Job 36:16

17But thou hast fulfilled the iudgement of the wicked: iudgement and iustice take hold on thee.Select Job 36:17

18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransome cannot deliuer thee.Select Job 36:18

19Will he esteeme thy 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 iniquitie: for this hast thou chosen rather then affliction.Select Job 36:21

22Beholde, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?Select Job 36:22

23Who hath inioyned him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquitie?Select Job 36:23

24Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.Select Job 36:24

25Euery man may see it, man may behold it afarre off.Select Job 36:25

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

27For hee maketh small the drops of water: they powre downe raine according to the vapour thereof:Select Job 36:27

28Which the clouds doe drop, and distill vpon man aboundantly.Select Job 36:28

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

30Behold, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.Select Job 36:30

31For by them iudgeth he the people, he giueth meate in abundance.Select Job 36:31

32With clouds he couereth the light, and commaundeth it not to shine, by the cloud that commeth betwixt.Select Job 36:32

33The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattel also concerning the Uapour.Select Job 36:33