Job 36

¹Eliu also adding spake these words:

²Bear with me a little, and I will shew to thee: for as yet I have what to speak for God.

³I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my maker just.

⁴For indeed my words are without lie, & perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.

⁵God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas himself also is mighty.

⁶But he saveth not the impious, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

⁷He shall not take away his eyes from the just man, and he placeth kings in the throne for ever, and there they are extolled.

⁸And if they shall be in chains, & be bound with the ropes of poverty.

⁹He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.

¹⁰He also shall reveal their ear, to chastise them: & shall speak, that they may return from iniquity:

¹¹If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

¹²But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

¹³Dissemblers and crafty men provoke the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

¹⁴Their soul shall die in tempest, and their life, among the effeminates.

¹⁵He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall reveal his ear in tribulation.

¹⁶Therefore he shall save thee most largely out of the narrow mouth, and not having foundation under it: and the quietness of thy table shall be full of fatness.

¹⁷Thy cause is judged as an impious man's, cause and judgment thou shalt receive.

¹⁸Let not therefore anger overcome thee, that thou oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts incline thee.

¹⁹Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, & all the puissant of strength.

²⁰Protract not the night, that peoples may come up for them.

²¹Beware thou decline not to iniquity: for thou hast begun to follow it after misery.

²²Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like to him among the law givers.

²³Who can search his ways? Or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?

²⁴Remember that thou knowest not his work, whereof men have sung.

²⁵All men see him, every one beholdeth far off.

²⁶Behold, God is great surmounting our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

²⁷Who taketh away the drops of rain, & poureth out showers as it were gifts of water.

²⁸Which flow out from the clouds, that cover all things from above.

²⁹If he will stretch forth clouds as his tent,

³⁰And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

³¹For by these he judgeth peoples, and giveth victuals to many mortal men.

³²In his hands he hideth the light, & commandeth it that it come again.

³³He sheweth his friend thereof, that it is his possession, and that he may ascend to it.