{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "job", "chapter": 36 }, "data": { "n": 36, "bookSlug": "job", "bookCode": "JOB", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JOB-36:1", "verseRef": "Job.36.1", "text": "Elihu also proceeded, and said," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JOB-36:2", "verseRef": "Job.36.2", "text": "Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God`s behalf." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JOB-36:3", "verseRef": "Job.36.3", "text": "I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JOB-36:4", "verseRef": "Job.36.4", "text": "For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JOB-36:5", "verseRef": "Job.36.5", "text": "Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JOB-36:6", "verseRef": "Job.36.6", "text": "He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted [their] right." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JOB-36:7", "verseRef": "Job.36.7", "text": "He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JOB-36:8", "verseRef": "Job.36.8", "text": "And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;" },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JOB-36:9", "verseRef": "Job.36.9", "text": "Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JOB-36:10", "verseRef": "Job.36.10", "text": "He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JOB-36:11", "verseRef": "Job.36.11", "text": "If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JOB-36:12", "verseRef": "Job.36.12", "text": "But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JOB-36:13", "verseRef": "Job.36.13", "text": "But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JOB-36:14", "verseRef": "Job.36.14", "text": "They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JOB-36:15", "verseRef": "Job.36.15", "text": "He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JOB-36:16", "verseRef": "Job.36.16", "text": "Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JOB-36:17", "verseRef": "Job.36.17", "text": "But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee]." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JOB-36:18", "verseRef": "Job.36.18", "text": "For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JOB-36:19", "verseRef": "Job.36.19", "text": "Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JOB-36:20", "verseRef": "Job.36.20", "text": "Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JOB-36:21", "verseRef": "Job.36.21", "text": "Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JOB-36:22", "verseRef": "Job.36.22", "text": "Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JOB-36:23", "verseRef": "Job.36.23", "text": "Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JOB-36:24", "verseRef": "Job.36.24", "text": "Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JOB-36:25", "verseRef": "Job.36.25", "text": "All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JOB-36:26", "verseRef": "Job.36.26", "text": "Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JOB-36:27", "verseRef": "Job.36.27", "text": "For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor," },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JOB-36:28", "verseRef": "Job.36.28", "text": "Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JOB-36:29", "verseRef": "Job.36.29", "text": "Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JOB-36:30", "verseRef": "Job.36.30", "text": "Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JOB-36:31", "verseRef": "Job.36.31", "text": "For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "JOB-36:32", "verseRef": "Job.36.32", "text": "He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "JOB-36:33", "verseRef": "Job.36.33", "text": "The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that cometh up." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/36", "book": "/v1/library/books/job/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }