KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 36
1 Elihu shows how Jehovah is just in His ways. 16 How Job's sins hinder Jehovah's blessings. 24 Jehovah's works are to be magnified.
1¶ And Elihu continued, and said:
2Wait for me a little, and I will make known to you that there are yet words for God.
3I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.
4For truly my words are not false; the perfect One in knowledge is with you.
5¶ Behold, God is mighty, and He does not despise. He is mighty in strength of heart.
6He will not keep the wicked one alive, but He gives justice to the afflicted ones.
7He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous one, but they are like kings on the throne; yea, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.
8And if they are bound in chains, or caught in cords of affliction,
9then He declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved proudly.
10He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn back from iniquity.
11If they hear and serve, they shall spend their days in good, and their years in pleasures.
12But if they do not listen, they shall pass away by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13But the godless in heart lay up anger; they cry not when He has bound them.
14Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites.
15¶ He delivers the afflicted one by his affliction, and He opens their ears by oppression.
16And also He allured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped under it; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.
17And you have filled up the judgment of the wicked one; judgment and justice take hold.
18For beware wrath, that He not incite you to mockery; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.
19If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in gold, but with all the strong forces?
20Do not pant after the night when people are cut off in their stead.
21Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
22Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
23Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong?
24¶ Remember that you magnify His work, of which men have sung;
25every man has seen it; man beholds it from afar.
26Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years are unsearchable.
27For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist,
28which the clouds drip down, and drop upon men plentifully.
29Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, the crashing of His canopy?
30Behold, He spreads His light about Him, and He covers the bottom of the sea.
31For by them He judges peoples, He gives food in abundance.
32He covers over His palms with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;
33its roar reveals concerning Him; also the livestock, as to what is coming.
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