Noyes - Job - 36

36:1  Elihu also proceeded, and said:

36:2  Bear with me a little while, that I may show thee! For I have yet words in behalf of God.

36:3  I will bring my knowledge from afar, And assert the justice of my Maker.

36:4  Truly my words shall not be false: A man of sound knowledge is before thee.

36:5  Behold, God is great, but despiseth not any; Great is he in strength of understanding.

36:6  He suffereth not the wicked to prosper, But rendereth justice to the oppressed.

36:7  He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous; But establisheth them for ever with kings on the throne, That they may be exalted.

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

36:9  Then showeth he them their deeds, And how they have set him at defiance by their transgressions;

36:10  He also openeth their ears to admonition, And commandeth them to return from iniquity.

36:11  If they obey and serve him, They spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

36:12  But if they obey not, they perish by the sword; They die in their own folly.

36:13  The corrupt in heart treasure up wrath; They cry not to God, when he bindeth them.

36:14  They die in their youth; They close their lives with the unclean.

36:15  But he delivereth the poor in their distress; He openeth their ears in affliction.

36:16  He will bring thee also from the jaws of distress To a broad place, where is no straitness; And the provision of thy table shall be full of fatness.

36:17  But if thou art full of the judgment of the wicked, Judgment and justice shall take hold of thee.

36:18  For if wrath be with him, beware lest he take thee away by his stroke, So that a great ransom shall not save thee!

36:19  Will he esteem thy riches? No! neither thy gold, nor all the abundance of thy wealth.

36:20  Long not thou for that night To which nations are taken away from their place.

36:21  Take heed, turn not thine eyes to iniquity! For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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

36:23  Who hath prescribed to him his way? Or who can say to him, "Thou hast done wrong"?

36:24  Forget not to magnify his work, Which men celebrate with songs.

36:25  All mankind gaze upon it; Mortals behold it from afar.

36:26  Behold, God is great; we cannot know him, Nor search out the number of his years.

36:27  Lo! he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil rain from his vapor;

36:28  The clouds pour it down, And drop it upon man in abundance.

36:29  Who can understand the spreading of his clouds, And the rattling of his pavilion?

36:30  Behold, he spreadeth around himself his light, And he clotheth himself with the depths of the sea.

36:31  By these he punisheth nations, And by these he giveth food in abundance.

36:32  His hands he covereth with lightning; He giveth it commandment against an enemy.

36:33  His thunder maketh him known; Yea, to the herds, as he ascendeth on high.