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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Elihu also proceeded, and said: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Suffer me a little, and I will tell thee;</div><div class="po2">For there are yet words on God’s behalf.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will fetch my knowledge from afar,</div><div class="po2">And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For truly my words are not false;</div><div class="po2">One that is upright in mind is with thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Behold, God is mighty, yet He despiseth not any;</div><div class="po2">He is mighty in strength of understanding.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He preserveth not the life of the wicked;</div><div class="po2">But giveth to the poor their right.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He withdraweth not His eyes from the righteous;</div><div class="po2">But with kings upon the throne</div><div class="po2">He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And if they be bound in fetters,</div><div class="po2">And be holden in cords of affliction;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then He declareth unto them their work,</div><div class="po2">And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He openeth also their ear to discipline,</div><div class="po2">And commandeth that they return from iniquity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If they hearken and serve Him,</div><div class="po2">They shall spend their days in prosperity,</div><div class="po2">And their years in pleasures.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,</div><div class="po2">And they shall die without knowledge.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But they that are godless in heart lay up anger;</div><div class="po2">They cry not for help when He bindeth them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Their soul perisheth in youth,</div><div class="po2">And their life as that of the depraved.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He delivereth the afflicted by His affliction,</div><div class="po2">And openeth their ear by tribulation.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress</div><div class="po2">Into a broad place, where there is no straitness;</div><div class="po2">And that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked;</div><div class="po2">Judgment and justice take hold on them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency;</div><div class="po2">Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Will thy riches avail, that are without stint,</div><div class="po2">Or all the forces of thy strength?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Desire not the night,</div><div class="po2">When peoples are cut off in their place.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Take heed, regard not iniquity;</div><div class="po2">For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Behold, God doeth loftily in His power;</div><div class="po2">Who is a teacher like Him?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who hath enjoined Him His way?</div><div class="po2">Or who hath said: ‘Thou hast wrought unrighteousness’?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Remember that thou magnify His work,</div><div class="po2">Whereof men have sung.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>All men have looked thereon;</div><div class="po2">Man beholdeth it afar off.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge;</div><div class="po2">The number of His years is unsearchable.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For He draweth away the drops of water,</div><div class="po2">Which distil rain from His vapour;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Which the skies pour down</div><div class="po2">And drop upon the multitudes of men.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,</div><div class="po2">The crashings of His pavilion?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Behold, He spreadeth His light upon it;</div><div class="po2">And He covereth the depths of the sea.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For by these He judgeth the peoples;</div><div class="po2">He giveth food in abundance.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He covereth His hands with the lightning,</div><div class="po2">And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The noise thereof telleth concerning it,</div><div class="po2">The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div 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