Job Chapter 36

36 : 1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,

36 : 2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

36 : 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

36 : 4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.

36 : 5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

36 : 6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.

36 : 7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

36 : 8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;

36 : 9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

36 : 10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

36 : 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

36 : 12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

36 : 13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.

36 : 14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

36 : 15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

36 : 16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no narrow place; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.

36 : 17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

36 : 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

36 : 19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

36 : 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

36 : 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.

36 : 22 Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?

36 : 23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

36 : 24 Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.

36 : 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

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

36 : 27 For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:

36 : 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.

36 : 29 Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

36 : 30 Behold, he spreads his light on it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

36 : 31 For by them judges he the people; he gives meat in abundance.

36 : 32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.

36 : 33 The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.