Job 36

¹And Elius further continued, and said,

²Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach thee: for there is yet speech in me.

²Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach you: for there is yet speech in me.

³Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,

⁴I will speak just things truly, and thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words.

⁴I will speak just things truly, and you shall not unjustly receive unjust words.

⁵But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,

⁶he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of 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.

⁸But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.

⁹And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.

¹⁰But he will hearken to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.

¹⁰But he will listen to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.

¹¹If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honour.

¹¹If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honor.

¹²But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.

¹³And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

¹⁴Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers [of death].

¹⁵Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.

¹⁶And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:

¹⁶And he has also enticed you out of the mouth of the enemy:

¹⁷[there is] a deep gulf [and] a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;

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;

¹⁸but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.

¹⁹Let not [thy] mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

¹⁹Let not [your] mind willingly turn you aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

²⁰And draw not forth all the mighty [men] by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.

²¹But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong: for of this thou hast made choice because of poverty.

²¹But take heed lest you do that which is wrong: for of this you have made choice because of poverty.

²²Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?

²³And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, He has wrought injustice?

²³And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?

²⁴Remember that his works are great [beyond] those which men have attempted.

²⁵Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.

²⁶Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know [him]: the number of his years is even infinite.

²⁷And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.

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 thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in [thy] body.

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.

²⁹And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle;

³⁰behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.

³¹For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.

³²He has hidden the light in [his] hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing [cloud].

³³The Lord will declare concerning this [to] his friend: [but there is] a portion also for unrighteousness.

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