NHEBJE - Job - 36

36:1  Elihu also continued, and said,

36:2  "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.

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

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

36:5  "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

36:6  He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

36:7  He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

36:8  If they are bound in fetters, and are 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 ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

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

36:12  But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword; 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. Their life perishes among the unclean.

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

36:16  Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

36:17  "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

36:18  Do not let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

36:19  Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

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

36:21  Take heed, do not regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

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

36:23  Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

36:24  "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.

36:25  All men have looked thereon. Man sees 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 distill in rain from his vapor,

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

36:29  Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

36:30  Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom 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 noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.