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Job 36
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1And Elius further continued, and said,
1Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach you: for there is yet speech in me.
2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
3Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,
3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words.
4For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,
5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.
6He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
7He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but [they shall be] with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.
7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
8But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.
8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.
9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.
10He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor.
11If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.
12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.
13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
14Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers [of death].
14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.
15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16And he has also enticed you out of the mouth of the enemy:
16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17[there is] a deep gulf [and] a rushing stream beneath it, and your table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;
17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.
18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19Let not [your] mind willingly turn you aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.
19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20And draw not forth all the mighty [men] by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.
20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21But take heed lest you do that which is wrong: for of this you have made choice because of poverty.
21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?
22Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?
23Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24Remember that his works are great [beyond] those which men have attempted.
24Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.
25Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know [him]: the number of his years is even infinite.
26Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.
27For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28The ancient [heavens] shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. [Yet] by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in [your] body.
28Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle;
29Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
30Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.
31For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
32He has hidden the light in [his] hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing [cloud].
32With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
33The Lord will declare concerning this [to] his friend: [but there is] a portion also for unrighteousness.
33The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.