Job 36

¹Elihu also proceeded, and said,🔗🔍
²Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.🔗🔍
³I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.🔗🔍
⁴For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.🔗🔍
⁵Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.🔗🔍
⁶He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.🔗🔍
⁷He 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.🔗🔍
⁸And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;🔗🔍
⁹Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.🔗🔍
¹⁰He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.🔗🔍
¹¹If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.🔗🔍
¹²But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.🔗🔍
¹³But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.🔗🔍
¹⁴They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.🔗🔍
¹⁵He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.🔗🔍
¹⁶Even 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.🔗🔍
¹⁷But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.🔗🔍
¹⁸Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.🔗🔍
¹⁹Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.🔗🔍
²⁰Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.🔗🔍
²¹Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.🔗🔍
²²Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?🔗🔍
²³Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?🔗🔍
²⁴Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.🔗🔍
²⁵Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.🔗🔍
²⁶Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.🔗🔍
²⁷For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:🔗🔍
²⁸Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.🔗🔍
²⁹Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?🔗🔍
³⁰Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.🔗🔍
³¹For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.🔗🔍
³²With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.🔗🔍
³³The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.🔗🔍