Job 36:2–25

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

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

³“I will take up my knowledge from afar,

And I will ascribe ^arighteousness to my Maker.

⁴“For truly ^amy words are not a lie;

One who is ^1bperfect in knowledge is with you.

⁵“Behold, God is mighty but does not ^areject;

He is ^bmighty in the power of His heart.

⁶“He does not ^akeep the wicked alive,

But gives justice to ^bthe afflicted.

⁷“He does not ^awithdraw His eyes from the righteous;

But ^bwith kings on the throne

He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

⁸“And if they are bound in fetters,

And are caught in the cords of ^aaffliction,

⁹Then He declares to them their work

And their transgressions, that they have ^amagnified themselves.

¹⁰“^aHe opens their ear to discipline,

And ^bsays that they return from wickedness.

¹¹“If they hear and serve Him,

They will ^aend their days in prosperity

And their years in ^bpleasures.

¹²“But if they do not hear, they shall pass away ^aby a weapon

And they will ^bbreathe their last without knowledge.

¹³“But the godless in heart lay up anger;

They do not cry for help when He binds them.

¹⁴“¹They die in youth,

And their life perishes among the ^acult prostitutes.

¹⁵“He delivers the afflicted in ¹their ^aaffliction,

And ^bopens their ear in ²time of oppression.

¹⁶“Then indeed, He ^aenticed you from the mouth of distress,

Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;

And the comfort of your table full of ¹fatness.

¹⁷“But you were full of ^ajudgment on the wicked;

Judgment and justice take hold of you.

¹⁸“Beware lest ^awrath entice you to scoffing;

And do not let the greatness of the ^batonement turn you aside.

¹⁹“Will your ¹cries keep you from distress,

Or all the forces of your power?

²⁰“Do not long for ^athe night,

When people ¹vanish in their place.

²¹“Be careful, do ^anot turn to wickedness,

For you have chosen this to ^baffliction.

²²“Behold, God is exalted in His power;

Who is a ^ateacher like Him?

²³“Who has appointed Him His way,

And who has said, ‘^aYou have worked out ¹unrighteousness’?

²⁴“Remember that you should ^aexalt His work,

Of which men have ^bsung.

²⁵“All men have beheld it;

Man looks from afar.