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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"><title>Job 36 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/36-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Elihu Describes God’s Power<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Elius further continued, and said,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Wait form me yet a little while, that I may teach thee: for there is yet speech in me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will speak just things truly, and thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but <i>they shall be</i> with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But he will hearken to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If they should hear and serve <i>him</i>, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honour.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath <i>against themselves</i>; they will not cry, because he has bound them.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers <i>of death</i>.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><i>there is</i> a deep gulf <i>and</i> a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Let not <i>thy</i> mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And draw not forth all the mighty <i>men</i> by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong: for of this thou has made choice because of poverty.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Remember that his works are great <i>beyond</i> those which men have attempted.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know <i>him</i>: the number of his years is even infinite.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The ancient <i>heavens</i> shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: <font color=blue>(36:28A)</font> he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. <font color=blue>(36:28B)</font> <i>Yet</i> by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in <i>thy</i> body.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, <i>or</i> the measure of his tabernacle;<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He has hidden the light in <i>his</i> hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing <i>cloud</i>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Lord will declare concerning this <i>to</i> his friend: <i>but there is</i> a portion also for unrighteousness.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>