The Book of Job
capítulo 36
verso 1
Elihu also continued, and said,
verso 2
“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
verso 3
I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
verso 4
For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
verso 5
“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
verso 6
He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
verso 7
He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
verso 8
If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
verso 9
then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
verso 10
He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
verso 11
If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
verso 12
But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
verso 13
“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
verso 14
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
verso 15
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
verso 16
Yes, 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.
verso 17
“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
verso 18
Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
verso 19
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
verso 20
Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
verso 21
Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
verso 22
Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
verso 23
Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
verso 24
“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
verso 25
All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
verso 26
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
verso 27
For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
verso 28
which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
verso 29
Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
verso 30
Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
verso 31
For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
verso 32
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
verso 33
Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
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