JOB 36
1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words are not false: one that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth to the afflicted their right.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings upon the throne he setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of affliction;
9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10 He openeth also their ear to instruction, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11 If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: they cry not for help when he bindeth them.
14 They die in youth, and their life perisheth among the unclean.
15 He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, and openeth their ear in oppression.
16 Yea, he would have led thee away out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17 But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18 Because there is wrath, beware lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
19 Will thy riches suffice, that thou be not in distress, or all the forces of thy strength?
20 Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: who is a teacher like unto him?
23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, whereof men have sung.
25 All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
27 For he draweth up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapour:
28 Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
29 Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
30 Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; and he covereth the bottom of the sea.
31 For by these he judgeth the peoples; he giveth meat in abundance.
32 He covereth his hands with the lightning; and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
33 The noise thereof telleth concerning him, the cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.
Cross-references
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- 2Job 21:3, Job 13:7–8, 2Co 5:20, Heb 13:22, Jer 15:19, Job 33:6, Job 33:31–33, Ezk 2:7
- 3Jas 3:17, Jas 1:17, Rev 15:3, Job 8:3, Dan 9:7, Deu 32:4, Dan 9:14, Psa 11:7
- 4Pro 8:7–8, Job 37:16, 1Co 14:20, 2Ti 3:16–17, Psa 49:3, Pro 22:20–21, Col 4:12, Act 24:22
- 5Psa 22:24, Psa 138:6, Jer 10:12, Job 37:23, Psa 147:5, Jer 32:19, Job 12:13–16, Job 26:12–14
- 6Psa 72:12–14, 2Pe 2:9, Psa 140:12, Exo 22:22–24, Psa 72:4, Job 21:7–9, Job 5:15, Psa 82:1–4
- 7Psa 34:15, Psa 33:18, 1Sa 2:8, Psa 113:7–8, 2Th 3:3, Job 42:12, 1Pe 3:12, Est 10:3
- 8Psa 107:10, Pro 5:22, Lam 3:9, Psa 116:3, Job 13:27, Job 33:18–19, Psa 18:5, Job 19:6
- 91Co 11:32, Psa 119:71, Job 15:25, Isa 59:12, Luk 15:17–19, 1Ti 1:15, Rom 5:20, Deu 4:21–22
- 10Isa 55:6–7, Mat 3:8, Job 36:15, Isa 50:5, Isa 48:17, Isa 1:16–20, Job 33:16–23, 2Ki 17:13
- 11Jer 7:23, Isa 1:19, Jer 26:13, Deu 4:30, Heb 11:8, Job 22:23, Jas 5:5, Job 22:21
- 12Job 4:21, Rom 2:8–9, Isa 3:11, Deu 18:15–22, Deu 29:15–20, Isa 1:20, Jhn 8:21–24, Job 15:22
- 13Rom 2:5, Job 36:8, Job 27:8–10, 2Ch 28:13, Job 15:4, 2Ch 28:22, Psa 107:10, Mat 22:12–13
- 14Job 15:32, Job 22:16, Deu 23:17, Psa 55:23, Gen 19:24–25, Lev 10:1–2, Gen 38:7–10, Gen 19:5
- 15Job 36:10
- 16Psa 23:5, Psa 118:5, Psa 31:8, Psa 18:19, Psa 63:5, Isa 25:6, Psa 40:1–3, Psa 36:8
- 17Rev 18:4, Rom 1:32, Job 34:8, Job 16:5, Job 34:36, Job 22:11
- 18Job 33:24, Rom 1:18, Eph 5:6, Psa 110:5, Rom 2:5, Psa 49:7–8, Psa 2:12, 1Ti 2:6
- 19Pro 11:4, Pro 11:21, Pro 10:2, Psa 33:16–17, Job 9:13, Zep 1:18, Isa 2:20, Isa 37:36
- 20Job 34:20, Job 34:25, 2Ki 19:35, Exo 12:29, Job 17:13–14, Job 3:20–21, Pro 14:32, Act 1:25
- 21Psa 66:18, Heb 11:25, 1Pe 3:17, Mat 16:24, Dan 3:16–18, Mat 5:29–30, Dan 6:10, Mat 13:21
- 221Sa 2:7–8, Rom 13:1, Luk 1:52, Jer 27:5–8, Isa 48:17, Jer 31:38, Psa 75:7, Isa 54:13
- 231Co 2:16, Job 8:3, Isa 40:13–14, Rom 2:5, Eph 1:11, Rom 11:34, Job 34:10, Job 34:13–33
- 24Rev 15:3, Psa 145:10–12, Psa 111:2–4, Luk 1:46, Psa 72:18, Deu 4:19, Psa 92:4–5, Job 12:13–25
- 26Psa 90:2, Psa 145:3, Job 11:7–9, 1Co 13:12, 1Ki 8:27, Job 37:5, Job 37:23, Psa 102:24–27
- 27Psa 147:8, Job 38:25–28, Job 5:9, Psa 65:9–13, Psa 148:8, Gen 2:5–6, Isa 5:6, Jer 14:22
- 28Pro 3:20, Gen 7:11–12, Job 37:11–13
- 29Job 37:16, Job 37:2–5, Job 38:9, Psa 104:7, 1Ki 18:44–45, Psa 18:13, Psa 29:3–10, Psa 77:16–19
- 30Psa 18:11–16, Job 38:25, Exo 14:28, Exo 15:4–5, Job 38:8–11, Exo 14:22, Psa 104:5–9, Job 38:34–35
- 31Psa 136:25, Act 14:17, Job 37:13, Psa 104:13–15, Job 38:26–27, Psa 65:9–13, Psa 104:27–28, Gen 7:17–24
- 32Job 37:15, Psa 147:8–9, Psa 135:7, Psa 148:8, Psa 18:11, Exo 10:21–23, Job 26:9, Job 37:12
- 332Sa 22:14, Job 37:2, Job 36:29, Jer 14:4–6, 1Ki 18:41–45, Jol 2:22, Jol 1:18