| Job 36:1 |
And Elihu added [this] and said, |
| Job 36:2 |
Bear with me a little, and I will show you; / For there is more to say for God. |
| Job 36:3 |
I will bring my knowledge from afar / And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. |
| Job 36:4 |
For truly my words are not false; / One perfect in knowledge is with you. |
| Job 36:5 |
Indeed, God is mighty and does not despise; / [He is] mighty in strength of understanding. |
| Job 36:6 |
He does not preserve the wicked man alive, / But gives justice to the afflicted. |
| Job 36:7 |
He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; / And with kings on the throne, / He sets them forever, and they are exalted. |
| Job 36:8 |
And if they are bound in fetters, / If they are caught in the cords of affliction, |
| Job 36:9 |
He shows them their work / And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly. |
| Job 36:10 |
He also opens their ear to instruction / And commands that they return from iniquity. |
| Job 36:11 |
If they hear and serve [Him,] / They will spend their days in prosperity / And their years in pleasantness. |
| Job 36:12 |
But if they do not hear, they will pass away by the sword / And die without knowledge. |
| Job 36:13 |
But those who are profane in heart lay up anger; / They do not cry for help when He binds them. |
| Job 36:14 |
They die in youth, / And their life [ends] among the most defiled. |
| Job 36:15 |
He rescues the afflicted by their affliction / And opens their ear through oppression. |
| Job 36:16 |
Indeed He allures you from the jaws of distress / Into a spacious place, where there is no constraint; / And what is upon your table is full of fatness. |
| Job 36:17 |
But you are filled with the judgment of the wicked; / Judgment and litigation have taken hold [of you.] |
| Job 36:18 |
[Beware] lest wrath allures you into scoffing, / And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside. |
| Job 36:19 |
Will your cry keep [you] from being in distress, / Or all the forces of [your] strength? |
| Job 36:20 |
Do not long for the night, / When people are taken from their place. |
| Job 36:21 |
Take heed; do not turn toward iniquity; / For you have chosen this rather than affliction. |
| Job 36:22 |
Indeed, God is exalted in His power: / Who is a teacher like Him? |
| Job 36:23 |
Who has appointed His way for Him? / And who says, You have done wrong? |
| Job 36:24 |
Remember to magnify His work, / Of which men sing. |
| Job 36:25 |
All mankind has gazed on it; / Man beholds [it] from afar. |
| Job 36:26 |
Indeed, God is great, and we do not know [Him;] / The number of His years we also cannot search out. |
| Job 36:27 |
For He draws up the drops of water / Which distill into rain from His mist, |
| Job 36:28 |
Which the skies pour down / [And] drop upon man abundantly. |
| Job 36:29 |
Can they indeed understand the spreading of the clouds, / The thunderings of His pavilion? |
| Job 36:30 |
Indeed, He scatters His lightning around Him / And covers the roots of the sea. |
| Job 36:31 |
For by these He judges the peoples; / He gives food in abundance. |
| Job 36:32 |
He fills [His] hands with lightning / And commands it to strike the mark. |
| Job 36:33 |
Its noise tells of Him; / The cattle as well [tell] concerning Him who is coming. |