{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/36","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:46:48.950Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":36,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":35,"nextChapter":37,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Elihu also proceeded, and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no narrow place; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Behold, he spreads his light on it, and covers the bottom of the sea."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For by them judges he the people; he gives meat in abundance."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 36 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 36](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/36)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/36 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}