Job 36
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- 1Elihu also proceeded, and said,
- 2Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.
- 3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- 4For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
- 5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- 6He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted [supplied: their] right.
- 7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
- 8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
- 9Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
- 10He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- וַיִּ֣גֶל
- אָ֭זְנָם
- לַמּוּסָ֑ר
- וַ֝יֹּ֗אמֶר
- כִּֽי־
- כִּֽיki-thatH3588A
- יְשֻׁב֥וּן
- מֵאָֽוֶן׃
- 11If they hearken and serve [supplied: him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
- 12But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
- 13But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.
- 14They die in youth, And their life [supplied: perisheth] among the unclean.
- 15He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
- 16Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
- 17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [supplied: on thee].
- 18For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
- 19Will thy cry avail, [supplied: that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [supplied: thy] strength?
- 20Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
- 21Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- 22Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?
- 23Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
- 24Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.
- 25All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
- 26Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
- 27For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
- 28Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
- 29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
- 30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
- 31For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
- 32He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
- 33The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning [supplied: the storm] that cometh up.
Words in italics were supplied by the translators.
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