Job 36 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Elihu Proclaims God’s Goodness

Results of Job’s Sins

Job 36:1

Job 36:1Elihu also proceeded and said:

Job 36:2

Job 36:2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you
That there are yet words to speak on God’s behalf.

Job 36:3

Job 36:3I will fetch my knowledge from afar;
I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 36:4

Job 36:4For truly my words are not false;
One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Job 36:5

Job 36:5“Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one;
He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Job 36:6

Job 36:6He does not preserve the life of the wicked,
But gives justice to the oppressed.

Job 36:7

Job 36:7He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;
But they are on the throne with kings,
For He has seated them forever,
And they are exalted.

Job 36:8

Job 36:8And if they are bound in fetters,
Held in the cords of affliction,

Job 36:9

Job 36:9Then He tells them their work and their transgressions—
That they have acted defiantly.

Job 36:10

Job 36:10He also opens their ear to instruction,
And commands that they turn from iniquity.

Job 36:11

Job 36:11If they obey and serve Him,
They shall spend their days in prosperity,
And their years in pleasures.

Job 36:12

Job 36:12But if they do not obey,
They shall perish by the sword,
And they shall die without knowledge.[fn]

Job 36:13

Job 36:13“But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.

Job 36:14

Job 36:14They die in youth,
And their life ends among the perverted persons.[fn]

Job 36:15

Job 36:15He delivers the poor in their affliction,
And opens their ears in oppression.

Job 36:16

Job 36:16“Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress,
Into a broad place where there is no restraint;
And what is set on your table would be full of richness.

Job 36:17

Job 36:17But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked;
Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Job 36:18

Job 36:18Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow;
For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.

Job 36:19

Job 36:19Will your riches,
Or all the mighty forces,
Keep you from distress?

Job 36:20

Job 36:20Do not desire the night,
When people are cut off in their place.

Job 36:21

Job 36:21Take heed, do not turn to iniquity,
For you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Job 36:22

Job 36:22“Behold, God is exalted by His power;
Who teaches like Him?

Job 36:23

Job 36:23Who has assigned Him His way,
Or who has said, ‘You have done wrong’?

Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

Job 36:24

Job 36:24“Remember to magnify His work,
Of which men have sung.

Job 36:25

Job 36:25Everyone has seen it;
Man looks on it from afar.

Job 36:26

Job 36:26“Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him;
Nor can the number of His years be discovered.

Job 36:27

Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water,
Which distill as rain from the mist,

Job 36:28

Job 36:28Which the clouds drop down
And pour abundantly on man.

Job 36:29

Job 36:29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds,
The thunder from His canopy?

Job 36:30

Job 36:30Look, He scatters His light upon it,
And covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:31

Job 36:31For by these He judges the peoples;
He gives food in abundance.

Job 36:32

Job 36:32He covers His hands with lightning,
And commands it to strike.

Job 36:33

Job 36:33His thunder declares it,
The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.

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NKJV Footnotes

(36:12)

Masoretic Text reads as one without knowledge.

(36:14)

Hebrew qedeshim, that is, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

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