D.
His final word to Job
36:1—37:24
Job 36
:1
36:1
And Elihu added
this and said,
Job 36
:2
36:2
Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
For there is more to say for God.
Job 36
:3
36:3
I will bring my knowledge from afar
And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Job 36
:4
36:4
For truly my words are not false;
One perfect in
1knowledge is with you.
Job 36
:5
36:5
Indeed, God is mighty and does not despise;
He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Job 36
:6
36:6
He does not preserve the wicked man alive,
But gives justice to the afflicted.
Job 36
:7
36:7
He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;
And with kings on the throne,
He sets them forever, and they are exalted.
Job 36
:8
36:8
And if they are bound in fetters,
If they are caught in the cords of affliction,
Job 36
:9
36:9
He shows them their work
And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly.
Job 36
:10
36:10
He also opens their ear to instruction
And commands that they return from iniquity.
Job 36
:11
36:11
If they hear and serve
Him,
They will spend their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasantness.
Job 36
:12
36:12
But if they do not hear, they will pass away by the sword
And die without knowledge.
Job 36
:13
36:13
But those who are profane in heart
alay up anger;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.
Job 36
:14
36:14
They die in youth,
And their life
ends among the most defiled.
Job 36
:15
36:15
He rescues the afflicted by their affliction
And opens their ear through oppression.
Job 36
:16
36:16
Indeed He allures you from the jaws of distress
Into a spacious place, where there is no constraint;
And what is upon your table is full of fatness.
Job 36
:17
36:17
But you are filled with the judgment of the wicked;
Judgment and litigation have taken hold
of you.
Job 36
:18
36:18
Beware lest wrath allures you into scoffing,
And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
Job 36
:19
36:19
Will your cry keep
you from being in distress,
Or all the forces of
your strength?
Job 36
:20
36:20
Do not long for the night,
When people are taken from their place.
Job 36
:21
36:21
Take heed; do not turn toward iniquity;
For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
Job 36
:22
36:22
Indeed, God is exalted in His power:
Who is a teacher like Him?
Job 36
:23
36:23
Who has appointed His way for Him?
And who says, You have done wrong?
Job 36
:24
36:24
Remember to magnify His work,
Of which men sing.
Job 36
:25
36:25
All mankind has gazed on it;
Man beholds
it from afar.
Job 36
:26
36:26
Indeed, God is great, and we do not know
Him;
The number of His years we also cannot search out.
Job 36
:27
36:27
For He draws up the drops of water
Which distill into
arain from His mist,
Job 36
:28
36:28
Which the skies pour down
And drop upon man abundantly.
Job 36
:29
36:29
Can they indeed understand the spreading of the clouds,
The thunderings of His pavilion?
Job 36
:30
36:30
Indeed, He scatters His lightning around Him
And covers the roots of the sea.
Job 36
:31
36:31
For by these He judges the peoples;
He gives
afood in abundance.
Job 36
:32
36:32
He fills
His hands with lightning
And commands it to strike the mark.
Job 36
:33
36:33
Its noise tells of Him;
The cattle as well
tell concerning Him who is coming.
