{"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/web/job/36","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:05:03.407Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":36,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":35,"nextChapter":37,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Elihu also continued, and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"|Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"|Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 36 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 36](https://primebible.com/web/job/36)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/36 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}