Job 36:1-33
36 And E·liʹhu proceeded to say further:
2 “Have patience with me a little while, and I shall declare to youThat there are yet words [to say] for God.*
3 I shall carry my knowledge from far off,And to my Fashioner* I shall ascribe righteousness.+
4 For my words are for a fact no falsehood;The One perfect in knowledge+ is with you.
5 Look! God* is mighty+ and will not reject;[He is] mighty in power of heart;*
6 He will not preserve anyone wicked alive,+But the judgment of the afflicted ones he will give.+
7 He will not take away his eyes from anyone righteous;+Even kings on the throne+—He will also seat them forever, and they will be exalted.
8 And if they are bound in fetters,+They are captured with ropes of affliction.
9 Then he will tell them about the way they actAnd their transgressions, because they take a superior air.
10 And he will uncover their ear to exhortation,+And he will say that they should turn back from what is hurtful.+
11 If they obey and serve,They will finish their days in what is goodAnd their years in pleasantness.+
12 But if they do not obey, they will pass away+ even by a missile,+And they will expire without knowledge.
13 And those apostate in heart will themselves lay up anger.+They should not cry for help because he has bound them.
14 Their soul will die in youth itself,+And their life among male temple prostitutes.+
15 He will rescue the afflicted one in his affliction,And he will uncover their ear in the oppression.
16 And he will also certainly allure you from the mouth of distress!+Broader space,+ not constraint, will be in its place,And the consolation of your table will be full of fatness.+
17 With the judicial sentence upon the wicked one+ you will certainly be filled;Judicial sentence and justice will themselves take hold.
18 For [take care] that rage+ does not allure you into [spiteful] handclapping,And let not a large ransom+ itself lead you astray.
19 Will your cry for help take effect?+ No, nor in distressEven all [your] powerful efforts.+
20 Do not pant for the night,*For peoples to retreat [from] where they are.
21 Be on your guard that you do not turn to what is hurtful,+For this you have chosen rather than affliction.+
22 Look! God* himself acts exaltedly with his power;Who is an instructor like him?
23 Who has called his way to account against him,+And who has said, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?+
24 Remember that you should magnify his activity+Of which men have sung.+
25 All mankind* themselves have gazed upon it;Mortal man himself keeps looking from far off.+
26 Behold! God is more exalted than we can know;+In number his years are beyond searching.+
27 For he draws up the drops of water;+They filter as rain for his mist,
28 So that the clouds trickle,+They drip upon mankind abundantly.
29 Indeed, who can understand the cloud layers,The crashings from his booth?+
30 Look! He has spread out over it his light,+And the roots of the sea he has covered.
31 For by them he pleads the cause of peoples;+He gives food in abundance.+
32 In his hands he has covered over the lightning,*And he lays a command upon it against an assailant.+
33 His booming tells about him,+The livestock also concerning the one coming up.
Footnotes
^ “For God.” Heb., le·ʼElohʹah.
^ Or, “and to my Maker.” Heb., u·lePho·ʽaliʹ.
^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
^ Or, “night’s [rest].”
^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
^ “Mankind.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ Lit., “light.” Heb., ʼohr, the same noun as in vs 30.
