### Darby's English Translation

Job 35

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 36
| And Elihu proceeded and said,
| Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.
| I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
| For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
| Lo, łGod is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:
| He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.
| 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.
| And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
| Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
| And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
| If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
| But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
| But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:
| Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
| But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.
| 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.
| But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
| Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
| Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
| Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
| Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
| Lo, łGod is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
| Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
| Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
| All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.
| Lo, łGod is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
| For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
| Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.
| But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
| Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
| For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
| [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.
| His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.

Job 37

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