Job 36
Job 36:1 Then Elihu continued, and said:
Job 36:2 Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you, for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.
Job 36:3 I will get my knowledge from a distant place and ascribe fairness to my Maker.
Job 36:4 Indeed, my words are not false; one who has complete knowledge is with you.
Job 36:5 Yes, God is mighty, but he despises no one; he understands all things.
Job 36:6 He does not keep the wicked alive, but he gives justice to the oppressed.
Job 36:7 He does not withdraw his gaze from the righteous, but he seats them forever with enthroned kings, and they are exalted.
Job 36:8 If people are bound with chains and trapped by the cords of affliction,
Job 36:9 God tells them what they have done and how arrogantly they have transgressed.
Job 36:10 He opens their ears to correction and tells them to turn from iniquity.
Job 36:11 If they listen and serve him, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
Job 36:12 But if they do not listen, they will cross the river of death and die without knowledge.
Job 36:13 Those who have a godless heart harbor anger; even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
Job 36:14 They die in their youth; their life ends among male cult prostitutes.
Job 36:15 God rescues the afflicted by their affliction; he instructs them by their torment.
Job 36:16 Indeed, he lured you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and unconfined place. Your table was spread with choice food.
Job 36:17 Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
Job 36:18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a hefty ransom lead you astray.
Job 36:19 Can your wealth or all your physical exertion keep you from distress?
Job 36:20 Do not long for the night when nations will disappear from their places.
Job 36:21 Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity, for that is why you have been tested by affliction.
Job 36:22 Look, God shows himself exalted by his power. Who is a teacher like him?
Job 36:23 Who has appointed his way for him, and who has declared, “You have done wrong”?
Job 36:24 Remember that you should praise his work, which people have sung about.
Job 36:25 All mankind has seen it; people have looked at it from a distance.
Job 36:26 Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of his years cannot be counted.
Job 36:27 For he makes waterdrops evaporate; they refine the rain into its mist,
Job 36:28 which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
Job 36:29 Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?
Job 36:30 See how he spreads his lightning around him and covers the depths of the sea.
Job 36:31 For He judges the nations with these; he gives food in abundance.
Job 36:32 He covers his hands with lightning and commands it to hit its mark.
Job 36:33 The thunder declares his presence; the cattle also, the approaching storm.
