Job 36
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Elihu also continued, and said,
1Eliu also proceeded, and said:
2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God’s behalf.
3I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
3I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.
4For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
4For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.
5“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
5God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.
6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
6But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
7He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.
8If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:
9then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
9He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.
10He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
10He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.
11If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
11If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.
12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
12But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.
13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
13Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.
14They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
14Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.
15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
15He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.
16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
16Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.
17“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
17Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.
18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
18Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
19Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.
20Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
20Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
21Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
22Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.
23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
23Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou has wrought iniquity?
24“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
24Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.
25All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
25All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
26Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.
27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
28which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
28Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
29If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
30And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.
31For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
31For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
32In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.
33Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
33He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.
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