Job 36

1Elihu also continued, and said,

2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.Cross-references: Ex 4:16 · Job 13:7 · Job 21:3 · Job 33:6 · Job 33:31 · Jer 15:19 · +3 more

3I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.Cross-references: Deut 32:4 · Job 8:3 · Job 28:12 · Job 28:20 · Job 32:2 · Job 32:8 · +19 more

4For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.Cross-references: Job 13:4 · Job 13:7 · Job 21:27 · Job 21:34 · Job 22:6 · Job 33:3 · +10 more

5“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.Cross-references: Job 9:14 · Job 9:19 · Job 10:3 · Job 12:13 · Job 26:12 · Job 31:13 · +8 more

6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.Cross-references: Ex 22:22 · Job 5:15 · Job 8:22 · Job 21:7 · Job 21:30 · Job 29:12 · +11 more

7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.Cross-references: Gen 23:6 · Gen 41:40 · 1Sam 2:8 · 2Sam 7:13 · 2Chr 16:9 · Esth 10:3 · +10 more

8If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,Cross-references: Job 13:27 · Job 19:6 · Job 33:18 · Ps 18:5 · Ps 107:10 · Ps 116:3 · +2 more

9then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.Cross-references: Deut 4:21 · 2Chr 33:11 · Job 10:2 · Job 15:25 · Ps 5:10 · Ps 94:12 · +9 more

10He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:13 · Job 33:16 · Job 36:15 · Ps 40:6 · Prov 1:22 · Prov 8:4 · +15 more

11If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.Cross-references: Deut 4:30 · Job 11:13 · Job 21:11 · Job 22:21 · Job 22:23 · Job 42:12 · +8 more

12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · Deut 29:15 · Job 4:21 · Job 15:22 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 3:11 · +2 more

13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.Cross-references: Num 32:14 · 2Chr 28:13 · 2Chr 28:22 · Job 15:4 · Job 27:8 · Job 35:9 · +4 more

14They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.Cross-references: Gen 19:5 · Gen 19:24 · Gen 38:7 · Lev 10:1 · Deut 23:17 · Job 15:32 · +3 more

15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.Cross-references: 2Chr 12:8 · Job 36:10

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.Cross-references: Job 19:8 · Job 42:10 · Ps 18:19 · Ps 23:5 · Ps 31:8 · Ps 36:8 · +6 more

17“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.Cross-references: Job 16:5 · Job 22:11 · Job 34:8 · Job 34:36 · Rom 1:32 · Rev 18:4

18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.Cross-references: Job 33:24 · Ps 2:5 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 39:10 · Ps 49:7 · Ps 110:5 · +8 more

19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?Cross-references: Job 9:13 · Job 34:20 · Ps 33:16 · Prov 10:2 · Prov 11:4 · Prov 11:21 · +4 more

20Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.Cross-references: Ex 12:29 · 2Ki 19:35 · Job 3:20 · Job 6:9 · Job 7:15 · Job 14:13 · +9 more

21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.Cross-references: Job 34:7 · Job 35:3 · Ps 66:18 · Ezek 14:4 · Dan 3:16 · Dan 6:10 · +7 more

22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?Cross-references: 1Sam 2:7 · Job 35:11 · Ps 75:7 · Ps 94:10 · Ps 94:12 · Isa 14:5 · +10 more

23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?Cross-references: Job 8:3 · Job 34:10 · Job 34:13 · Job 40:8 · Isa 40:13 · Rom 2:5 · +5 more

24“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Job 12:13 · Job 26:5 · Ps 19:1 · Ps 28:5 · Ps 34:3 · +16 more

25All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.

26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:27 · Job 10:5 · Job 11:7 · Job 26:14 · Job 37:5 · Job 37:23 · +6 more

27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,Cross-references: Gen 2:5 · Job 5:9 · Job 36:33 · Job 38:25 · Job 38:34 · Ps 65:9 · +4 more

28which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.Cross-references: Gen 7:11 · Job 37:11 · Prov 3:20

29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?Cross-references: 1Ki 18:44 · Job 26:14 · Job 37:2 · Job 37:16 · Job 38:9 · Job 38:37 · +7 more

30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.Cross-references: Gen 1:9 · Ex 14:22 · Ex 14:28 · Ex 15:4 · Job 38:8 · Job 38:25 · +4 more

31For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.Cross-references: Gen 6:17 · Gen 7:17 · Gen 19:24 · Ex 9:23 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:15 · +12 more

32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · Job 26:9 · Job 37:12 · Job 37:15 · Ps 18:11 · Ps 135:7 · +3 more

33Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:14 · 1Ki 18:41 · Job 36:29 · Job 37:2 · Jer 14:4 · Joel 1:18 · +1 more