Job 36
36
Elihu Continues: Hear Me Out
1Elihu continued to speak ⌞to Job⌟,
2“Be patient with me a little longer, and I will show you
that there is more to be said in God’s defense.
3I will get my knowledge from far away
and prove that my Creator is fair.
4Certainly, my words are not lies.
The one who knows everything is ⌞speaking⌟ with you.
God’s Justice Is Beyond Human Understanding
5“Certainly, God is mighty.
He doesn’t despise anyone.
He is mighty and brave.
6He doesn’t allow the wicked person to live.
He grants justice to those who are oppressed.
7He doesn’t take his eyes off righteous people.
He seats them on thrones with kings to honor them forever.
8However, if righteous people are bound in chains
and tangled in ropes of misery,
9he tells them what they’ve done wrong
and that they’ve behaved arrogantly.
10He makes them listen to his warning
and orders them to turn away from wrong.
11“If righteous people listen and serve ⌞him⌟,
they will live out their days in prosperity
and their years in comfort.
12But if they don’t listen,
they will cross the River ⌞of Death⌟
and die like those who have no knowledge.
13But those who have godless hearts remain angry.
They don’t even call for help when he chains them up.
14They die while they’re young,
or they live on as male prostitutes in the temples of idols.
15He rescues suffering people through their suffering,
and he opens their ears through distress.
16“Yes, he lured you away from the jaws of trouble
into an open area where you were not restrained,
and your table was covered with rich foods.
17But you are given the judgment evil people deserve.
A fair judgment will be upheld.
18Be careful that you are not led astray with riches.
Don’t let a large bribe turn you ⌞to evil ways⌟.
19Will your riches save you from having to suffer?
Will all your mighty strength help you?
20Don’t look forward to the night,
when people disappear from their places.
21Be careful! Don’t turn to evil,
because you have chosen evil instead of suffering.
22“God does great things by his power.
Is there any teacher like him?
23Who can tell him which way he should go?
Who can say to him, ‘You did wrong’?
24Remember that you should praise his work.
People have sung about it.
25Every person has seen it.
Mortals have looked at it from a distance.
26“Certainly, God is so great
that he is beyond our understanding.
The number of his years cannot be counted.
27He collects drops of water.
He distills rain from his mist,
28which then drips from the clouds.
It pours down on many people.
29Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out
or how he thunders from his dwelling place?
30Look, he scatters his flashes of lightning around him
and covers the depths of the sea.
31This is how he uses the rains to provide for people
and to give them more than enough food.
32He fills his hands with lightning
and orders it to hit the target.
33The thunder announces his coming.
The storm announces his angry wrath.
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Job 36
36
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
1Eli´hu also proceeded, and said,
2Suffer me a little, and I will show thee
that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3I will fetch my knowledge from afar,
and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4For truly my words shall not be false:
he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:
he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6He preserveth not the life of the wicked:
but giveth right to the poor.
7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:
but with kings are they on the throne;
yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
8And if they be bound in fetters,
and be holden in cords of affliction;
9then he showeth them their work,
and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10He openeth also their ear to discipline,
and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11If they obey and serve him,
they shall spend their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasures.
12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword,
and they shall die without knowledge.
13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath:
they cry not when he bindeth them.
14They die in youth,
and their life is among the unclean.
15He delivereth the poor in his affliction,
and openeth their ears in oppression.
16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait
into a broad place, where there is no straitness;
and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked:
judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke:
then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19Will he esteem thy riches?
No, not gold,
nor all the forces of strength.
20Desire not the night,
when people are cut off in their place.
21Take heed, regard not iniquity:
for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22Behold, God exalteth by his power:
who teacheth like him?
23Who hath enjoined him his way?
Or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24Remember that thou magnify his work,
which men behold.
25Every man may see it;
man may behold it afar off.
26Behold, God is great, and we know him not,
neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27For he maketh small the drops of water:
they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof;
28which the clouds do drop
and distil upon man abundantly.
29Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,
or the noise of his tabernacle?
30Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it,
and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31For by them judgeth he the people;
he giveth meat in abundance.
32With clouds he covereth the light;
and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
33The noise thereof showeth concerning it,
the cattle also concerning the vapor.
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