# Job 36 (New King James Version)
Elihu Proclaims God's Goodness

##### Chapter 36
###### 1 Elihu also proceeded and said:

###### 2 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you  
That _there are_ yet words to speak on God's behalf.  

###### 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar;  
I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.  

###### 4 For truly my words _are_ not false;  
One who is perfect in knowledge _is_ with you.

###### 5 "Behold, God _is_ mighty, but despises _no one;_  
_He is_ mighty in strength of understanding.  

###### 6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked,  
But gives justice to the oppressed.  

###### 7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;  
But _they are_ on the throne with kings,  
For He has seated them forever,  
And they are exalted.  

###### 8 And if _they are_ bound in fetters,  
Held in the cords of affliction,  

###### 9 Then He tells them their work and their transgressions--  
That they have acted defiantly.  

###### 10 He also opens their ear to instruction,  
And commands that they turn from iniquity.  

###### 11 If they obey and serve _Him,_  
They shall spend their days in prosperity,  
And their years in pleasures.  

###### 12 But if they do not obey,  
They shall perish by the sword,  
And they shall die without knowledge.

###### 13 "But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath;  
They do not cry for help when He binds them.  

###### 14 They die in youth,  
And their life _ends_ among the perverted persons.  

###### 15 He delivers the poor in their affliction,  
And opens their ears in oppression.

###### 16 "Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress,  
_Into_ a broad place where _there is_ no restraint;  
And what is set on your table _would be_ full of richness.  

###### 17 But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked;  
Judgment and justice take hold _of you._  

###### 18 Because _there is_ wrath, _beware_ lest He take you away with _one_ blow;  
For a large ransom would not help you avoid _it._  

###### 19 Will your riches,  
Or all the mighty forces,  
Keep you from distress?  

###### 20 Do not desire the night,  
When people are cut off in their place.  

###### 21 Take heed, do not turn to iniquity,  
For you have chosen this rather than affliction.

###### 22 "Behold, God is exalted by His power;  
Who teaches like Him?  

###### 23 Who has assigned Him His way,  
Or who has said, 'You have done wrong'?Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

###### 24 "Remember to magnify His work,  
Of which men have sung.  

###### 25 Everyone has seen it;  
Man looks on _it_ from afar.

###### 26 "Behold, God _is_ great, and we do not know _Him;_  
Nor can the number of His years _be_ discovered.  

###### 27 For He draws up drops of water,  
Which distill as rain from the mist,  

###### 28 Which the clouds drop down  
_And_ pour abundantly on man.  

###### 29 Indeed, can _anyone_ understand the spreading of clouds,  
The thunder from His canopy?  

###### 30 Look, He scatters His light upon it,  
And covers the depths of the sea.  

###### 31 For by these He judges the peoples;  
He gives food in abundance.  

###### 32 He covers _His_ hands with lightning,  
And commands it to strike.  

###### 33 His thunder declares it,  
The cattle also, concerning the rising _storm._