ACV - Job - 36

36:1  Elihu also proceeded, and said,

36:2  Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say 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 are not false.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

36:5  Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

36:6  He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

36:7  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.

36:8  And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,

36:9  then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

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

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

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

36:13  But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.

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

36:15  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

36:16  Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

36:17  But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,

36:18  and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.

36:19  Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?

36:20  Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

36:21  Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.

36:22  Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

36:23  Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?

36:24  Remember that thou magnify his work, of which men have sung.

36:25  All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.

36:26  Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

36:27  For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,

36:28  which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.

36:29  Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

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

36:31  For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance.

36:32  He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.

36:33  The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.