en_cjb - Job 36 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Elihu added:

² “Bear with me a little, and I will show you that there is more to say on God’s behalf.

³ I may search far and wide for my arguments, but I will ascribe righteousness to God my maker.

⁴ For the fact is that my words are true; you have with you a man whose views are pure.

⁵ “Look, God is powerful and despises no one, powerful in his strength of understanding.

⁶ He does not preserve the lives of the wicked, but he gives justice to the poor.

⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but when he sets kings on their throne forever, they may become proud;

⁸ if, then, they are bound in chains, held in oppressive cords,

⁹ he shows them the results of their doings, the crimes caused by their pride.

¹⁰ He sounds a warning in their ears and orders them to repent of their evil.

¹¹ “If they pay attention and obey him, they spend their days in prosperity; their years pass pleasantly.

¹² But if they don’t pay attention, they perish by the sword and die without learning their lesson.

¹³ The godless in heart cherish their anger, not crying for help when he binds them.

¹⁴ Their soul perishes in their youth, and their life becomes depraved.

¹⁵ “God, with his affliction, delivers the afflicted; and he gets their attention by pressing on them.

¹⁶ Indeed [Iyov], he is drawing you away from distress to an untroubled open place, with rich food on your table.

¹⁷ But the judgment on the wicked applies fully to you, judgment and condemnation take hold [of them].

¹⁸ For beware of wrath when abundance entices you; don’t let a big bribe turn you aside.

¹⁹ Will your great wealth help you? or all your efforts, no matter how strong?

²⁰ Don’t desire the night, when people suddenly die.

²¹ Be careful; turn away from wrongdoing; for because of this, you have been tested by affliction.

²² “Look, God is exalted in his strength; who is a teacher like him?

²³ Who ever prescribed his course for him? Who ever said, ‘What you are doing is wrong’?

²⁴ Remember, rather, to magnify his work, of which many have sung.

²⁵ Everyone has seen it, [but] humans see it [only] from a distance.

²⁶ Look, God is great, beyond what we can know; the number of his years is uncountable.

²⁷ “He makes the droplets of water, which condense into rain from his mist.

²⁸ The clouds pour it down upon humankind in abundance.

²⁹ Can anyone fathom the spreading of the clouds, or the crashes that come from his canopy?

³⁰ See how he scatters his lightning over it and covers the roots of the sea.

³¹ By these things he judges the people and also gives food in plenty.

³² He gathers the lightning into his hands and commands it to strike the target.

³³ Its crashing announces its presence and apprises the cattle of what is coming.