Job 36 Elihu Justifies God Tells Job That His Sin Is Hindering His Blessing

 Job 36

Elihu Justifies God Tells Job That His Sin Is Hindering His Blessing

1 Elihu continued and said:

2 Wait a little while longer, and I will show you that there are still reasons for God.

3 I will speak my mind from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

4 For truly my words will not be false; there is one with you who is upright in his mind.

5 Behold, God is very great, yet he despises no one; he is great in strength of heart.

6 He will not let the wicked live, but he executes justice for the afflicted.

7 He does not take his eyes off the righteous, but he sets them on the throne forever, and they are exalted.

8 And if they are not bound with fetters, and bound with cords of affliction,

9 Then he will make known to them their work, and their transgressions, for they have prevailed in them.

10 He reveals it in their ears for their instruction, and tells them to turn from wickedness.

11 If they listen to him and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure.

12 But if they do not listen, they will be killed by the sword, and they will die without knowledge.

13 And the hypocrites in their hearts treasure up wrath for themselves; and when he binds them, they do not cry for help.

14 They die in their youth, and their lives perish among the sodomites.

15 He delivers the afflicted from their distress, and reveals himself in their ears in oppression.

16 So he will bring you out of trouble into a large place where there is no straitness, and the food of your table will be full of fatness.

17 But you are full of the judgment of the wicked; justice and righteousness sustain you. 

18 For there is wrath, beware lest you be carried away by your own sufficiency, and the great ransom turn away from you.

19 Would he so greatly value your riches, or all the exertions of your strength, that you should not be in distress?

20 Do not long for the night, when the peoples are taken from their place.

21 Beware of turning aside to iniquity, for you have chosen this rather than your misery.

22 Behold, God exalts by his strength; who teaches like him?

23 Who will call him to account for his way? Or who has said to him, 'You have done wrong'?

24 Remember to magnify his work, which men behold.

25 All men see it, and man sees it from afar.

26 Behold, God is great, and we do not comprehend him, and the number of his years cannot be calculated. 

27 For he gathers together the drops of water, which he pours out in rain from his vapor. 

28 Which the clouds drop, and drop upon man abundantly.

 29 Can the expanses of the clouds also be understood, or the thunders of his tent? 

30 Behold, he spreads his light over them, and covers the heights of the sea. 

31 For by these things he judges the peoples, and gives them food in abundance. 

32 He covers the light with his hands, and forbids it from passing among them.

 33 Who does not make his thought known, nor to the cattle, because of the storm that comes.