1611 King James Bible
Job 36
- Job 36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
- Job 36:2 Suffer mee a little, and I will shewe thee, that I haue yet to speake on Gods behalfe.
- Job 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afarre, and will ascribe righteousnesse to my Maker.
- Job 36:4 For truely my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge, is with thee.
- Job 36:5 Behold, God is mightie, and despiseth not any: he is mightie in strength and wisedome.
- Job 36:6 He preserueth not the life of the wicked: but giueth right to the poore.
- Job 36:7 Hee withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne, yea he doth establish them for euer, and they are exalted.
- Job 36:8 And if they bee bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction:
- Job 36:9 Then hee sheweth them their worke, and their transgressions, that they haue exceeded.
- Job 36:10 He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth that they returne from iniquitie.
- Job 36:11 If they obey and serue him, they shall spend their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeeres in pleasures.
- Job 36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
- Job 36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heape vp wrath: they crie not when he bindeth them.
- Job 36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the vncleane.
- Job 36:15 He deliuereth the poore in his affliction, and openeth their eares in oppression.
- Job 36:16 Euen so would he haue remooued thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitnesse, and that which should be set on thy table, should be full of fatnesse.
- Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the iudgement of the wicked: iudgement and iustice take hold on thee.
- Job 36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransome cannot deliuer thee.
- Job 36:19 Will he esteeme thy riches? no not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
- Job 36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- Job 36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquitie: for this hast thou chosen rather then affliction.
- Job 36:22 Beholde, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
- Job 36:23 Who hath inioyned him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquitie?
- Job 36:24 Remember that thou magnifie his worke, which men behold.
- Job 36:25 Euery man may see it, man may behold it afarre off.
- Job 36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his yeeres be searched out.
- Job 36:27 For hee maketh small the drops of water: they powre downe raine according to the vapour thereof:
- Job 36:28 Which the clouds doe drop, and distill vpon man aboundantly.
- Job 36:29 Also can any vnderstand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
- Job 36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
- Job 36:31 For by them iudgeth he the people, he giueth meate in abundance.
- Job 36:32 With clouds he couereth the light, and commaundeth it not to shine, by the cloud that commeth betwixt.
- Job 36:33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattel also concerning the Uapour.