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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 36 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</a> > Job 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/35.htm" title="Job 35">◄</a> Job 36 <a href="../job/37.htm" title="Job 37">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Elihu also continued, and said,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>"Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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