The Book of Job

36: 1Elihu also proceeded, and said,

 ^36:2Suffer me a little, and I will show thee;

 For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

 ^36:3I will fetch my knowledge from afar,

 And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

 ^36:4For truly my words are not false:

 One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

 ^36:5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:

 He is mighty in strength of understanding.

 ^36:6He preserveth not the life of the wicked,

 But giveth to the afflicted their right.

 ^36:7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:

 But with kings upon the throne

 He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

 ^36:8And if they be bound in fetters,

 And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

 ^36:9Then he showeth them their work,

 And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

 ^36:10He openeth also their ear to instruction,

 And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

 ^36:11If they hearken and serve him,

 They shall spend their days in prosperity,

 And their years in pleasures.

 ^36:12But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,

 And they shall die without knowledge.

 ^36:13But they that are godless in heart lay up anger:

 They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

 ^36:14They die in youth,

 And their life perisheth among the unclean.

 ^36:15He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction,

 And openeth their ear in oppression.

 ^36:16Yea, 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.
 
 

 ^36:17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked:

 Judgment and justice take hold on thee.

 ^36:18For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements;

 Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

 ^36:19Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress,

 Or all the forces of thy strength?

 ^36:20Desire not the night,

 When peoples are cut off in their place.

 ^36:21Take heed, regard not iniquity:

 For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

 ^36:22Behold, God doeth loftily in his power:

 Who is a teacher like unto him?

 ^36:23Who hath enjoined him his way?

 Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
 
 

 ^36:24Remember that thou magnify his work,

 Whereof men have sung.

 ^36:25All men have looked thereon;

 Man beholdeth it afar off.

 ^36:26Behold, God is great, and we know him not;

 The number of his years is unsearchable.

 ^36:27For he draweth up the drops of water,

 Which distil in rain from his vapor,

 ^36:28Which the skies pour down

 And drop upon man abundantly.

 ^36:29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,

 The thunderings of his pavilion?

 ^36:30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him;

 And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

 ^36:31For by these he judgeth the peoples;

 He giveth food in abundance.

 ^36:32He covereth his hands with the lightning,

 And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

 ^36:33The noise thereof telleth concerning him,

 The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.