Previous Next
PrintPrintSettingsSettingsParallelParallel

Job 36  Legacy Standard Bible

Elihu Says God Gives the Afflicted Justice

36 Then Elihu continued and said,

2 “Wait for me a little, and I will show you
That there [a]is yet more to be said in God’s behalf.
3 I will take up my knowledge from afar,
And I will ascribe (A)righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly (B)my words are not a lie;
One who is [b](C)perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 Behold, God is mighty but does not (D)reject;
He is (E)mighty in the power of His heart.
6 He does not (F)keep the wicked alive,
But gives justice to (G)the afflicted.
7 He does not (H)withdraw His eyes from the righteous;
But (I)with kings on the throne
He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they are bound in fetters,
And are caught in the cords of (J)affliction,
9 Then He declares to them their work
And their transgressions, that they have (K)magnified themselves.
10 (L)He opens their ear to discipline,
And (M)says that they return from wickedness.
11 If they hear and serve Him,
They will (N)end their days in prosperity
And their years in (O)pleasures.
12 But if they do not hear, they shall pass away (P)by a weapon
And they will (Q)breathe their last without knowledge.
13 But the godless in heart lay up anger;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.
14 [c]They die in youth,
And their life perishes among the (R)cult prostitutes.
15 He delivers the afflicted in [d]their (S)affliction,
And (T)opens their ear in [e]time of oppression.
16 Then indeed, He (U)enticed you from the mouth of distress,
Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;
And the comfort of your table full of [f]fatness.

17 “But you were full of (V)judgment on the wicked;
Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18 Beware lest (W)wrath entice you to scoffing;
And do not let the greatness of the (X)atonement turn you aside.
19 Will your [g]cries keep you from distress,
Or all the forces of your power?
20 Do not long for (Y)the night,
When people [h]vanish in their place.
21 Be careful, do (Z)not turn to wickedness,
For you have chosen this to (AA)affliction.
22 Behold, God is exalted in His power;
Who is a (AB)teacher like Him?
23 Who has appointed Him His way,
And who has said, ‘(AC)You have worked out [i]unrighteousness’?

24 “Remember that you should (AD)exalt His work,
Of which men have (AE)sung.
25 All men have beheld it;
Man looks from afar.
26 Behold, God is (AF)exalted, and (AG)we do not know Him;
The (AH)number of His years is unsearchable.
27 For (AI)He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain for His [j]stream,
28 Which the clouds pour down,
They drip upon man abundantly.
29 Can anyone discern the (AJ)spreading of the clouds,
The (AK)thundering of His [k]pavilion?
30 Behold, He spreads His [l]lightning about Him,
And He covers the depths of the sea.
31 For by these He (AL)judges peoples;
He (AM)gives food in abundance.
32 He covers His hands with the [m]lightning,
And (AN)commands it to strike the mark.
33 Its (AO)thundering declares about Him;
The cattle also, concerning what is coming up.

Footnotes

  1. Job 36:2 Lit are yet words for God
  2. Job 36:4 Or blameless
  3. Job 36:14 Or Their soul dies
  4. Job 36:15 Lit his
  5. Job 36:15 Or adversity
  6. Job 36:16 Or rich food
  7. Job 36:19 Or riches
  8. Job 36:20 Lit go up
  9. Job 36:23 Or injustice
  10. Job 36:27 Or mist
  11. Job 36:29 Lit booth
  12. Job 36:30 Lit light
  13. Job 36:32 Lit light

Cross references

  1. Job 36:3 : Job 8:3; 37:23
  2. Job 36:4 : Job 33:3
  3. Job 36:4 : Job 37:16
  4. Job 36:5 : Ps 22:24; 69:33; 102:17
  5. Job 36:5 : Job 12:13
  6. Job 36:6 : Job 8:22; 34:26
  7. Job 36:6 : Job 5:15
  8. Job 36:7 : Ps 33:18; 34:15
  9. Job 36:7 : Job 5:11; Ps 113:8
  10. Job 36:8 : Job 36:15, 21
  11. Job 36:9 : Job 15:25
  12. Job 36:10 : Job 33:16; 36:15
  13. Job 36:10 : 2 Kin 17:13; Job 36:21; Jon 3:8
  14. Job 36:11 : 1 Tim 4:8
  15. Job 36:11 : Ps 16:11
  16. Job 36:12 : Job 15:22
  17. Job 36:12 : Job 4:21
  18. Job 36:14 : Deut 23:17
  19. Job 36:15 : Job 36:8, 21
  20. Job 36:15 : Job 36:10
  21. Job 36:16 : Hos 2:14
  22. Job 36:17 : Job 22:5, 10, 11
  23. Job 36:18 : Jon 4:4, 9
  24. Job 36:18 : Job 33:24
  25. Job 36:20 : Job 34:20, 25
  26. Job 36:21 : Job 36:10; Ps 31:6; 66:18
  27. Job 36:21 : Job 36:8, 15; Heb 11:25
  28. Job 36:22 : Job 35:11
  29. Job 36:23 : Deut 32:4; Job 8:3
  30. Job 36:24 : Ps 92:5; Rev 15:3
  31. Job 36:24 : Ex 15:1; Judg 5:1; 1 Chr 16:9; Ps 59:16; 138:5
  32. Job 36:26 : Job 11:7-9; 37:23
  33. Job 36:26 : 1 Cor 13:12
  34. Job 36:26 : Job 10:5; Ps 90:2; 102:24, 27; Heb 1:12
  35. Job 36:27 : Job 5:10; 36:26-29; 37:6, 11; 38:28; Ps 147:8
  36. Job 36:29 : Job 37:11, 16
  37. Job 36:29 : Job 26:14
  38. Job 36:31 : Job 37:13
  39. Job 36:31 : Ps 104:27; 136:25; Acts 14:17
  40. Job 36:32 : Job 37:11, 12, 15
  41. Job 36:33 : Job 37:2
Next
Job 35
Job 37
Next
dropdown
Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org For Permission to Quote Information visit https://www.LSBible.org.