Job 36

Job 36:1 – Elihu also proceeded, and said,

Job 36:2 – Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God&#x27;s behalf.

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

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

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

Job 36:6 – He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

Job 36:7 – 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.

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

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

Job 36:10 – He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

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

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

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

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

Job 36:15 – He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Job 36:16 – 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…

Job 36:17 – But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

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

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

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

Job 36:21 – Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Job 36:22 – Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

Job 36:23 – Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Job 36:24 – Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

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

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

Job 36:27 – For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

Job 36:28 – Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

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

Job 36:30 – Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:31 – For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

Job 36:32 – With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

Job 36:33 – The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.