{"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/dbt/job/36","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:15:19.459Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":36,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":35,"nextChapter":37,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Elihu proceeded and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Lo, God is mighty, but despiseth not any; mighty in strength of understanding:                                  "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Lo, God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Lo, God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the crashing of his pavilion?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 36 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 36](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/36)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/36 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}