Job 36 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ Elihu also proceeded, and said,

² Suffer me a little, and I will show thee;\par\tab For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

³ I will fetch my knowledge from afar,\par\tab And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

⁴ For truly my words are not false:\par\tab One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

⁵ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:\par\tab He is mighty in strength of understanding.

⁶ He preserveth not the life of the wicked,\par\tab But giveth to the afflicted {\i their} right.

⁷ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:\par\tab But with kings upon the throne\par\tab He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

⁸ And if they be bound in fetters,\par\tab And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

⁹ Then he showeth them their work,\par\tab And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁰ He openeth also their ear to instruction,\par\tab And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

¹¹ If they hearken and serve {\i him},\par\tab They shall spend their days in prosperity,\par\tab And their years in pleasures.

¹² But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,\par\tab And they shall die without knowledge.

¹³ But they that are godless in heart lay up anger:\par\tab They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

¹⁴ They die in youth,\par\tab And their life {\i perisheth} among the unclean.

¹⁵ He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction,\par\tab And openeth their ear in oppression.

¹⁶ Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress\par\tab Into a broad place, where there is no straitness;\par\tab And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.\par

¹⁷ But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked:\par\tab Judgment and justice take hold {\i on thee}.

¹⁸ For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements;\par\tab Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

¹⁹ Will thy cry avail, {\i that thou be} not in distress,\par\tab Or all the forces of {\i thy} strength?

²⁰ Desire not the night,\par\tab When peoples are cut off in their place.

²¹ Take heed, regard not iniquity:\par\tab For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

²² Behold, God doeth loftily in his power:\par\tab Who is a teacher like unto him?

²³ Who hath enjoined him his way?\par\tab Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?\par

²⁴ Remember that thou magnify his work,\par\tab Whereof men have sung.

²⁵ All men have looked thereon;\par\tab Man beholdeth it afar off.

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we know him not;\par\tab The number of his years is unsearchable.

²⁷ For he draweth up the drops of water,\par\tab Which distil in rain from his vapor,

²⁸ Which the skies pour down\par\tab And drop upon man abundantly.

²⁹ Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,\par\tab The thunderings of his pavilion?

³⁰ Behold, he spreadeth his light around him;\par\tab And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

³¹ For by these he judgeth the peoples;\par\tab He giveth food in abundance.

³² He covereth his hands with the lightning,\par\tab And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

³³ The noise thereof telleth concerning him,\par\tab The cattle also concerning {\i the storm} that cometh up.\par