Darby - Job - 36

36:1  And Elihu proceeded and said,

36:2  Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words forGod.

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

36:4  For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.

36:5  Lo,God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:

36:6  He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.

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

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

36:9  Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

36:10  And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

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

36:12  But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.

36:13  But thegodless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

36:14  Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

36:15  But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.

36:16  Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.

36:17  But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].

36:18  Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.

36:19  Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!

36:20  Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.

36:21  Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

36:22  Lo,God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?

36:23  Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

36:24  Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.

36:25  All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.

36:26  Lo,God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

36:27  For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

36:28  Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.

36:29  But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?

36:30  Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

36:31  For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.

36:32  [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

36:33  His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.