Job 36

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1. 1Elihu continued and said,
2. 2"Bear with me a little, and I will show you that I still have words to speak on God's behalf.
3. 3I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4. 4Truly, my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5. 5Look, God is mighty, and does not despise anyone. He is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6. 6He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives right to the poor.
7. 7He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he seats them forever, and they are exalted.
8. 8And if they are bound in fetters and held in cords of affliction,
9. 9then he shows them their work and their transgressions, that they have exceeded.
10. 10He opens also their ear to discipline and commands that they return from iniquity.
11. 11If they obey and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.
12. 12But if they do not obey, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
13. 13But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; they do not cry out when he binds them.
14. 14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15. 15He delivers the poor in his affliction and opens their ears in oppression.
16. 16He would have taken you out of distress into a wide place without constraint, and your table would be filled with abundance.
17. 17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.
18. 18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke; then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
19. 19Will he esteem your riches? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20. 20Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21. 21Take heed, regard not iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
22. 22Look, God is exalted by his power. Who teaches like him?
23. 23Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, 'You have done iniquity'?
24. 24Remember to magnify his work, which people see.
25. 25Every person may see it; a person may see it from afar.
26. 26Look, God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years cannot be searched out.
27. 27For he makes small the drops of water; they pour down rain according to its vapor,
28. 28which the clouds drop and distill upon people abundantly.
29. 29Also, can anyone understand the spreadings of the clouds or the noise of his tabernacle?
30. 30Look, he spreads his light upon it and covers the bottom of the sea.
31. 31For by them he judges the people; he gives food in abundance.
32. 32He covers the light with clouds and commands it not to shine when a cloud comes between.
33. 33Its sound reveals it, and the cattle also know about the vapor.