<TITLE>Job 36</TITLE><BR>Job 36<BR>1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,<BR>2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.<BR>3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.<BR>4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.<BR>5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.<BR>6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.<BR>7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.<BR>8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;<BR>9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.<BR>10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.<BR>11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.<BR>12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.<BR>13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.<BR>14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.<BR>15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.<BR>16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.<BR>17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.<BR>18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.<BR>19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.<BR>20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.<BR>21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.<BR>22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?<BR>23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?<BR>24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.<BR>25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.<BR>26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.<BR>27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:<BR>28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.<BR>29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?<BR>30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.<BR>31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.<BR>32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.<BR>33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.<BR><BR><BR>