Job Chapter 36 (NKJV)
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1. Elihu also proceeded and said | |
2. Bear with me a little, and I will show you That there are yet words to speak on God's behalf. | |
3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. | |
4. For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you. | |
5. Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding. | |
6. He does not preserve the life of the wicked, But gives justice to the oppressed. | |
7. He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, And they are exalted. | |
8. And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction, | |
9. Then He tells them their work and their transgressions-- That they have acted defiantly. | |
10. He also opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they turn from iniquity. | |
11. If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures. | |
12. But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge. | |
13. But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; They do not cry for help when He binds them. | |
14. They die in youth, And their life ends among the perverted persons. | |
15. He delivers the poor in their affliction, And opens their ears in oppression. | |
16. Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress, Into a broad place where there is no restraint; And what is set on your table would be full of richness. | |
17. But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you. | |
18. Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it. | |
19. Will your riches, Or all the mighty forces, Keep you from distress? | |
20. Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place. | |
21. Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, For you have chosen this rather than affliction. | |
22. Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him? | |
23. Who has assigned Him His way, Or who has said, 'You have done wrong'? | |
24. Remember to magnify His work, Of which men have sung. | |
25. Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar. | |
26. Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered. | |
27. For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist, | |
28. Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man. | |
29. Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy? | |
30. Look, He scatters his light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea. | |
31. For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance. | |
32. He covers His hands with lightning, And commands it to strike. | |
33. His thunder declares it, The cattle also, concerning the rising storm. |
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