The Book of Job 36

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1 Elihu also proceeded and said ⚑

2 Suffer me a little and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf ⚑

3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker ⚑

4 For truly my words shall not be false he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee ⚑

5 Behold God is mighty and despiseth not any he is mighty in strength and wisdom ⚑

6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked but giveth right to the poor ⚑

7 He 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 ⚑

8 And if they be bound in fetters and be holden in cords of affliction ⚑

9 Then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded ⚑

10 He openeth also their ear to discipline and commandeth that they return 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 obey not they shall perish by the sword and they shall die without knowledge ⚑

13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath they cry not when he bindeth them ⚑

14 They die in youth and their life is among the unclean ⚑

15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction and openeth their ears in oppression ⚑

16 Even 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 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked judgment and justice take hold on thee ⚑

18 Because there is wrath beware lest he take thee away with his stroke then a great ransom cannot deliver thee ⚑

19 Will he esteem thy riches no not gold nor all the forces of strength ⚑

20 Desire not the night when people are cut off in their place ⚑

21 Take heed regard not iniquity for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction ⚑

22 Behold God exalteth by his power who teacheth like him ⚑

23 Who hath enjoined him his way or who can say Thou hast wrought iniquity ⚑

24 Remember that thou magnify his work which men behold ⚑

25 Every man may see it man may behold it afar off ⚑

26 Behold God is great and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out ⚑

27 For he maketh small the drops of water they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof ⚑

28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly ⚑

29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds or the noise of his tabernacle ⚑

30 Behold he spreadeth his light upon it and covereth the bottom of the sea ⚑

31 For by them judgeth he the people he giveth meat in abundance ⚑

32 With clouds he covereth the light and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt ⚑

33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it the cattle also concerning the vapour ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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