Job - Chapter 36

1: Eliu also proceeded, and said :
2: Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee : for I have yet somewhat to speak in God's behalf.
3: I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
4: For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.
5: God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.
6: But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
7: He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.
8: And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty :
9: He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.
10: He also shall open their ear, to correct them : and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.
11: If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
12: But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
13: Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
14: Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
15: He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.
16: Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it : and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.
17: Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
18: Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man : neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
19: Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
20: Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
21: Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity : for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
22: Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
23: Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him : Thou has wrought iniquity?
24: Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.
25: All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
26: Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge : the number of his years is inestimable.
27: He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods :
28: Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
29: If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
30: And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
31: For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
32: In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
33: He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.

Job - Chapter 36