Job 36

²“Bear with me a little, and I will show you;

³I will get my knowledge from afar,

⁴For truly my words are not false.

⁵“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.

⁶He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,

⁷He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,

⁸If they are bound in fetters,

⁹then he shows them their work,

¹⁰He also opens their ears to instruction,

¹¹If they listen and serve him,

¹²But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;

¹³“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.

¹⁴They die in youth.

¹⁵He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,

¹⁶Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,

¹⁷“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.

¹⁸Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,

¹⁹Would your wealth sustain you in distress,

²⁰Don’t desire the night,

²¹Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;

²²Behold, God is exalted in his power.

²³Who has prescribed his way for him?

²⁴“Remember that you magnify his work,

²⁵All men have looked on it.

²⁶Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him.

²⁷For he draws up the drops of water,

²⁸which the skies pour down

²⁹Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds

³⁰Behold, he spreads his light around him.

³¹For by these he judges the people.

³²He covers his hands with the lightning,

³³Its noise tells about him,