Webster - Job - 36

36:1  Elihu also proceeded, and said,

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

36:3  I will bring 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 thee.

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

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

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

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

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

36:10  He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth 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 bindeth them.

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

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

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 [would be] full of fatness.

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

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

36:19  Will he esteem thy 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 hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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

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

36:24  Remember that thou 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 maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor of it.

36:28  Which the clouds do drop [and] distill upon man abundantly.

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

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

36:31  For by them he judgeth the people; he giveth food in abundance.

36:32  With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the] intervening [cloud].

36:33  The noise of it showeth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.