AFV2020 - Job - 36

36:1  Elihu also proceeded and said,

36:2  "Bear with 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 I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

36:4  For truly my words are not false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

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

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

36:7  He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yea, He establishes them forever, and they are exalted.

36:8  And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,

36:9  Then He shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves arrogantly.

36:10  He also opens their ears 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 do not obey, 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 for help when He binds them.

36:14  They die in youth, and their life ends among the depraved.

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

36:16  And He also would have removed you out of dire distress into a wide place without constraint; and the setting of your table is full with richness.

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

36:18  For beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

36:19  Will He esteem your riches? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength can keep you from distress.

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

36:21  Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

36:22  Behold, God is exalted in His power; who is a Teacher like Him?

36:23  Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

36:24  Remember that you should exalt His work of which men have sung;

36:25  All men have seen it; man may see it afar off.

36:26  Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years cannot be searched out.

36:27  For He draws up the drops of water; they distill into rain from the mist,

36:28  Which the clouds pour down and drop on man abundantly.

36:29  Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing thunder of His canopy?

36:30  Behold, He spreads His light upon it, and He covers the depths of the sea.

36:31  For by these He judges the people; He gives food in abundance.

36:32  He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;

36:33  Its thunder declares concerning it, and the livestock, concerning a storm that is coming."