Job 36 — WBMS
36Verse 1Also Elihu added, and spake these things,Verse 2Suffer thou me a little, and I shall show to thee; for yet I have that, that I shall speak for God.Verse 3I shall rehearse my knowing from the beginning; and I shall prove my worker just [or rightwise].Verse 4For verily my words be without leasing, and by them perfect knowing shall be proved to thee.Verse 5God casteth not away mighty men, since he is mighty;Verse 6but he saveth not wicked men, and he giveth doom to poor men.Verse 7He taketh not away his eyes from a just [or rightwise] man; and he setteth kings in their seat without end, and they be raised up there.Verse 8And if they be in chains, and be bound with the ropes of poverty,Verse 9he shall show to them their works, and their great trespasses; for they were violent, either raveners.Verse 10Also he shall open their ears, that he chastise them; and he shall speak to them, that they turn again from their wickedness.Verse 11If they hear him, and keep his behests, they shall full-fill their days in good, and their years in glory.Verse 12Soothly if they hear not, they shall pass away by sword, and they shall be wasted in folly.Verse 13Feigners and false men stir the wrath of God; and they shall not cry to God, and acknowledge their guilt, when they be bound.Verse 14The soul of them shall die in tempest; and the life of them among womanish men.Verse 15He shall deliver a poor man from his anguish; and he shall open his ear in tribulation.Verse 16Therefore he shall save thee from the strait mouth of the broadest tribulation, and not having a founda-ment under it; and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.Verse 17Thy cause is deemed as the cause of a wicked man; and thou shalt receive thy cause and thy doom.Verse 18Therefore wrath overcome thee not, that thou oppress any man; and the multitude of gifts bow thee not.Verse 19Put down thy greatness without tribulation, and put down all strong men by strength.Verse 20Delay thou not the night, that peoples go up for them.Verse 21Be thou ware, that thou bow not to wickedness; for thou hast begun to follow this wickedness after wretched-ness.Verse 22Lo! God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the givers of law.Verse 23Who may seek out the ways of God? either who dare say to him, Thou hast wrought wickedness?Verse 24Have thou mind, that thou knowest not his work, of whom men have sung.Verse 25All men see God; each man be-holdeth afar.Verse 26Lo! God is great, over-coming our knowing; the number of his years is without number.Verse 27He taketh the drops of rain; and he poureth out rains at the likeness of floodgates,Verse 28which come down of the clouds, that cover all things above.Verse 29If he will stretch forth clouds as his tent,Verse 30and lightning with his light from above, he shall cover, yea, the hinges of the sea.Verse 31For by these things he deemeth peoples, and giveth meat to many deadly men.Verse 32In hands he hideth light; and commandeth it, that it come again.Verse 33He telleth of it to his friend, that it is his possession; and that he may ascend [or go up] to it.