Book 18 Job Chapter 036
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| 036:001 | Elihu also proceeded, and said,   |
| 036:002 | Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.   |
| 036:003 | I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.   |
| 036:004 | For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.   |
| 036:005 | Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.   |
| 036:006 | He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.   |
| 036:007 | He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.   |
| 036:008 | And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;   |
| 036:009 | Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.   |
| 036:010 | He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.   |
| 036:011 | If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.   |
| 036:012 | But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.   |
| 036:013 | But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.   |
| 036:014 | They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.   |
| 036:015 | He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.   |
| 036:016 | Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.   |
| 036:017 | But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.   |
| 036:018 | Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.   |
| 036:019 | Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.   |
| 036:020 | Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.   |
| 036:021 | Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.   |
| 036:022 | Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?   |
| 036:023 | Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?   |
| 036:024 | Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.   |
| 036:025 | Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.   |
| 036:026 | Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.   |
| 036:027 | For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:   |
| 036:028 | Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.   |
| 036:029 | Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?   |
| 036:030 | Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.   |
| 036:031 | For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.   |
| 036:032 | With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.   |
| 036:033 | The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. |