Job 36 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Elihu Speaks of God's Dealings with Men

Job 36:1

Job 36:1And Elihu addeth and saith: --

Job 36:2

Job 36:2Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.

Job 36:3

Job 36:3I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.

Job 36:4

Job 36:4For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Job 36:5

Job 36:5Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.

Job 36:6

Job 36:6He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

Job 36:7

Job 36:7He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

Job 36:8

Job 36:8And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

Job 36:9

Job 36:9Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

Job 36:10

Job 36:10And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.

Job 36:11

Job 36:11If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

Job 36:12

Job 36:12And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

Job 36:13

Job 36:13And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

Job 36:14

Job 36:14Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

Job 36:15

Job 36:15He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

Job 36:16

Job 36:16And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

Job 36:17

Job 36:17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

Job 36:18

Job 36:18Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

Job 36:19

Job 36:19Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

Job 36:20

Job 36:20Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

Job 36:21

Job 36:21Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than on affliction.

Job 36:22

Job 36:22Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

Job 36:23

Job 36:23Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

Job 36:24

Job 36:24Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

Job 36:25

Job 36:25All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

Job 36:26

Job 36:26Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

Job 36:27

Job 36:27When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

Job 36:28

Job 36:28Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

Job 36:29

Job 36:29Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

Job 36:30

Job 36:30Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

Job 36:31

Job 36:31For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

Job 36:32

Job 36:32By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

Job 36:33

Job 36:33He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 36 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Elihu Speaks of God's Dealings with Men

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