Job 36 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Elihu Speaks of God's Dealings with Men

Job 36:1

Job 36:1Elihu also proceeded, and said,

Job 36:2

Suffer me a little, and I will show thee;

For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.

Job 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar,

And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 36:4

For truly my words are not false:

One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Job 36:5

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:

He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Job 36:6

He preserveth not the life of the wicked,

But giveth to the afflicted their right.

Job 36:7

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:

But with kings upon the throne

He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters,

And be taken in the cords of affliction;

Job 36:9

Then he showeth them their work,

And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

Job 36:10

He openeth also their ear to instruction,

And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:11

If they hearken and serve him,

They shall spend their days in prosperity,

And their years in pleasures.

Job 36:12

But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,

And they shall die without knowledge.

Job 36:13

But they that are godless in heart lay up anger:

They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

Job 36:14

They die in youth,

And their life perisheth among the unclean.

Job 36:15

He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction,

And openeth their ear in oppression.

Job 36:16

Yea, 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.

Job 36:17

But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked:

Judgment and justice take hold on thee.

Job 36:18

For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements;

Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

Job 36:19

Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress,

Or all the forces of thy strength?

Job 36:20

Desire not the night,

When peoples are cut off in their place.

Job 36:21

Take heed, regard not iniquity:

For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Job 36:22

Behold, God doeth loftily in his power:

Who is a teacher like unto him?

Job 36:23

Who hath enjoined him his way?

Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

Job 36:24

Remember that thou magnify his work,

Whereof men have sung.

Job 36:25

All men have looked thereon;

Man beholdeth it afar off.

Job 36:26

Behold, God is great, and we know him not;

The number of his years is unsearchable.

Job 36:27

For he draweth up the drops of water,

Which distil in rain from his vapor,

Job 36:28

Which the skies pour down

And drop upon man abundantly.

Job 36:29

Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,

The thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 36:30

Behold, he spreadeth his light around him;

And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:31

For by these he judgeth the peoples;

He giveth food in abundance.

Job 36:32

He covereth his hands with the lightning,

And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

Job 36:33

The noise thereof telleth concerning him,

The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 36 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Elihu Speaks of God's Dealings with Men

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