book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Elihu also proceeded, and said,


text: Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.


text: I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.


text: For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.


text: Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.


text: He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.


text: He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.


text: And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;


text: Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.


text: He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.


text: If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.


text: But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.


text: But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.


text: They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.


text: He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.


text: Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.


text: But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.


text: Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.


text: Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.


text: Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.


text: Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.


text: Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?


text: Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?


text: Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.


text: Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.


text: Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.


text: For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:


text: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.


text: Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?


text: Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.


text: For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.


text: With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.


text: The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.