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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 36 AFV</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" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AFV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top">A Faithful Version</td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Elihu also proceeded 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 that <i>I have</i> yet to speak on God's behalf.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and I 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 <i>are</i> not false; He who is perfect in knowledge <i>is</i> with you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, God <i>is</i> mighty, yet He does not despise any; <i>He is</i> mighty in strength of understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He will not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the poor their right.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but <i>they are</i> like kings on the throne; yea, He establishes them forever, and they are exalted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And if they <i>are</i> bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,</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 arrogantly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He also opens their ears to discipline, 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 obey 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 do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath; they cry not 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, and their life <i>ends</i> among the depraved.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by tribulation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He also would have removed you out of dire distress <i>into</i> a wide place without constraint; and the setting of your table is full with richness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But you have fulfilled 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>For <i>beware</i> lest wrath entice you into scoffing; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Will He esteem your riches? <i>No</i>, not gold, nor all the forces of strength can keep you from distress.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Desire not 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>Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen 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 appointed Him His way; or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Remember that you should exalt His work of which men have sung;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>All men have seen <i>it</i>; man may see it afar off.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Behold, God <i>is</i> great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years cannot be searched out.</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; they distill into rain from the mist,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Which the clouds pour down <i>and</i> drop on man abundantly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Also can <i>any</i> understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing thunder of His canopy?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Behold, He spreads His light upon it, and He covers the depths 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 thunder declares concerning it, and the livestock, concerning a storm that is coming."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="https://afaithfulversion.org/">A Faithful Version</a><br><br>Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011<br>York Publishing Company<br>Post Office Box 1038<br>Hollister, California 95024-1038<br><br>All rights reserved.<br>All Scripture may be freely quoted except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means--electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or information storage and retrieval systems, or use of hermeneutical conclusions of copyright owner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/35.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 35"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 35" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/37.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 37"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 37" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>