Job 36

Revised Geneva Translation

36 Elihu also proceeded and said,

² “Bear with me a little and I will instruct you. For there is still more to speak on God’s behalf.

³ “I will fetch my knowledge from far off and will attribute righteousness to my Maker.

⁴ “For truly my words shall not be false. He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

⁵ “Behold, the mighty God casts away no one who is mighty and valiant of courage.

⁶ “He does not maintain the wicked, but He gives justice to the afflicted.

⁷ “He does not withdraw His Eyes from the righteous. But they are with kings on the throne, where He places them forever. Thus they are exalted.

⁸ “And if they are bound in chains, tied with the cords of affliction,

⁹ “then He will show them their work and their sins, because they have been proud.

¹⁰ “He also opens their ear to discipline, and commands them to return from iniquity.

¹¹ “If they obey and serve Him, they shall end their days in goodness, and their years in pleasures.

¹² “But if they will not obey, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

¹³ “But the hypocrites of heart increase the wrath. They do not call out when He binds them.

¹⁴ “Their soul dies in youth, and their life among the whoremongers.

¹⁵ “He delivers the poor in His afflictions, and opens their ear in trouble.

¹⁶ “Even so would He have taken you out of the straight place into a broad place, without constraint. And that which rests upon your table would have been full of fatness.

¹⁷ “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked, judgment and justice grasp you

¹⁸ “because of wrath, lest He should take you away with a stroke. For no multitude of gifts can deliver you.

¹⁹ “Will He regard your riches or all those who excel in strength?

²⁰ “Do not long for the night, when people go up from their place.

²¹ “Take heed. Do not look to iniquity. For you have chosen it rather than affliction.

²² “Behold, God exalts by His power. What teacher is like Him?

²³ “Who has appointed to Him His way? Or who can say, ‘You have done wickedly’?

²⁴ “Remember that you magnify His work, which men behold.

²⁵ “All men see it, and men behold it far off.

²⁶ “Behold, God is excellent, and we do not know Him. Nor can the number of His years be searched out.

²⁷ “For He restrains the drops of water that the rain pours down by its vapor,

²⁸ “which rain the clouds drop and let fall abundantly upon man.

²⁹ “Who can know the divisions of the clouds, the noise of His Tabernacle?

³⁰ “Behold, He spreads His light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

³¹ “For by them He judges the people and gives food abundantly.

³² “He covers His Hands with lightning, and commands it to strike.

³³ “The roar reveals it, and also the cattle, concerning its rising.”