Job 36:1-16

1Then Elihu continued and said,

2“Wait for me a little, and I will show you

That there [1] is yet more to be said in God’s behalf.

3I will fetch my knowledge from afar,

And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4For truly my words are not false;

One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any;

He is mighty in strength of understanding.

6He does not keep the wicked alive,

But gives justice to the afflicted.

7He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;

But with kings on the throne

He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

8And if they are bound in fetters,

And are caught in the cords of affliction,

9Then He declares to them their work

And their transgressions, that they have magnified themselves.

10He opens their ear to instruction,

And commands that they return from evil.

11If they hear and serve Him,

They will end their days in prosperity

And their years in pleasures.

12But if they do not hear, they shall [1] perish by the sword

And they will die without knowledge.

13But the godless in heart lay up anger;

They do not cry for help when He binds them.

14[1] They die in youth,

And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes.

15He delivers the afflicted in [1] their affliction,

And opens their ear [2] in time of oppression.

16Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress,

Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;

And that which was set on your table was full of [1] fatness.