Job 36:5-12

New Century Version

⁵ “God is powerful, but he does not hate people;
    he is powerful and sure of what he wants to do.
⁶ He will not keep evil people alive,
    but he gives the poor their rights.
⁷ He always watches over those who do right;
    he sets them on thrones with kings
    and they are honored forever.
⁸ If people are bound in chains,
    or if trouble, like ropes, ties them up,
⁹ God tells them what they have done,
    that they have sinned in their pride.
¹⁰ God makes them listen to his warning
    and commands them to change from doing evil.
¹¹ If they obey and serve him,
    the rest of their lives will be successful,
    and the rest of their years will be happy.
¹² But if they do not listen,
    they will die by the sword,
    and they will die without knowing why.