UKJV - Job - 36

36:1  Elihu also proceeded, and said,

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

36:3  I will fetch my knowledge from far, 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 you.

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

36:6  He perserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.

36:7  He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

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

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

36:10  He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands 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 binds them.

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

36:15  He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.

36:16  Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no strictness; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.

36:17  But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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

36:19  Will he esteem your 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 have you chosen rather than affliction.

36:22  Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?

36:23  Who has commanded with authority him his way? or who can say, You have wrought iniquity?

36:24  Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.

36:25  Every man may see it; man may behold it far 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 makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

36:28  Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

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

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

36:31  For by them judges he the people; he gives food in abundance.

36:32  With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.

36:33  The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.