Jubilee2000 - Job - 36

36:1  And Elihu added and said,

36:2  Wait for me a little, and I will teach thee; for I yet speak on God's behalf.

36:3  I will take my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

36:4  For truly my words [are] not lies; [for I share] perfect knowledge with thee.

36:5  Behold, God [is] mighty and does not despise; [he is] mighty in virtue of heart.

36:6  He shall not give life to the wicked; but to the poor he shall give their right.

36:7  He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever, and they shall be exalted.

36:8  And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction,

36:9  then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed.

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

36:11  If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.

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

36:13  But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.

36:14  Their soul shall die in youth, and their life [is] among the male [pagan cult] prostitutes.

36:15  He shall deliver the poor from his poverty, and in affliction shall open their ears.

36:16  Likewise, he would have removed thee out of the mouth of anguish [into] a broad place where [there is] no distress and should have set thy table full of fatness.

36:17  But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, against the judgment and the justice that sustain [everything].

36:18  Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with [a] stroke, which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom.

36:19  Will he esteem thy riches? [No], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

36:20  Do not desire the night, when he cuts people off in their place.

36:21  Take heed, do not regard iniquity, to chose it rather than poverty.

36:22  Behold, God is exalted by his power; what teacher is like him?

36:23  Who has prescribed his way unto him? Or who shall say unto him, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

36:24  Remember to 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 detains the drops of water; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour,

36:28  which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly.

36:29  Shall you understand the spreadings of the clouds [or] the noise of his tent?

36:30  Behold, he spreads his light upon it and covers the roots of the sea.

36:31  For by them he judges the peoples; he gives food to the multitude.

36:32  With the clouds he covers the light and commands them [to come] against [the light].

36:33  [The one] gives news of the other; [the one] acquires wrath against the one that comes.: