en_RV1895 - Job 36 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Elihu also proceeded, and said,

² Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

³ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

⁴ For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee

⁵ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.

⁶ He preserveth not the life of the wicked: But giveth to the afflicted their right.

⁷ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne he setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

⁸ And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of affliction;

⁹ Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁰ He openeth also their ear to instruction, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

¹¹ If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

¹² But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

¹³ But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

¹⁴ They die in youth, and their life perisheth among the unclean

¹⁵ He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, and openeth their ear in oppression.

¹⁶ Yea, he would have led thee away out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table should be full of fatness.

¹⁷ But thou art full of the judgement of the wicked: Judgement and justice take hold on thee.

¹⁸ Because there is wrath, beware lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

¹⁹ Will thy riches suffice, that thou be not in distress, or all the forces of thy strength?

²⁰ Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

²¹ Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

²² Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

²³ Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

²⁴ Remember that thou magnify his work, whereof men have sung.

²⁵ All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

²⁷ For he draweth up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapour:

²⁸ Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.

²⁹ Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

³⁰ Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; and he covereth the bottom of the sea.

³¹ For by these he judgeth the peoples; he giveth meat in abundance.

³² He covereth his hands with the lightning; and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

³³ The noise thereof telleth concerning him, the cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.