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Job 36:1-37:24 — Elihu's Fourth Speech

Job.36.1-37.24

¹Then Elihu continued: ²Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I still have words on God's behalf. ³I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. ⁴For truly my words are not false; one perfect in knowledge is before you. ⁵Look, God is mighty and does not despise anyone; he is mighty in strength of understanding. ⁶He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives justice to the afflicted. ⁷He does not take his eyes off the righteous, but seats them with kings on the throne forever, and they are exalted. ⁸But if they are bound in chains and caught in cords of affliction, ⁹then he declares to them their deeds and their transgressions, that they have acted proudly. ¹⁰He opens their ears to discipline and tells them to turn back from iniquity. ¹¹If they listen and serve him, they will finish their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness. ¹²But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword, and they will die without knowledge. ¹³But the godless in heart store up anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them. ¹⁴They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes . ¹⁵He rescues the afflicted through their affliction and opens their ears through oppression. ¹⁶Indeed, he was drawing you out of the mouth of distress into a broad place where there is no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of rich food. ¹⁷But you are full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you. ¹⁸For let not wrath entice you into mockery, and let not the greatness of a ransom turn you aside. ¹⁹Will your cry avail, so that you are not in distress, or all the exertions of your strength? ²⁰Do not long for the night, when peoples are taken away from their place. ²¹Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction. ²²Look, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him? ²³Who has appointed his way for him, or who has said, 'You have done wrong'? ²⁴Remember to magnify his work, which people have sung of. ²⁵All humanity has seen it; mortals behold it from afar. ²⁶Look, God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable. ²⁷For he draws up drops of water; they distill rain from his mist. ²⁸which the clouds pour down and shower abundantly on humanity. ²⁹Can anyone understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his covering ? ³⁰See, he spreads his light around him and covers the roots of the sea. ³¹For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance. ³²He covers the light in his hands and commands it to strike its mark. ³³His thunder declares him; even the cattle tell that a storm is rising.

Chapter 37

¹At this also my heart trembles and leaps from its place. ²Listen closely to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth. ³Under the whole sky he sends it out, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. ⁴After it a voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not hold them back when his voice is heard. ⁵God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we do not know. ⁶For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a shower,' and to the downpours of his mighty rain. ⁷He seals the hand of every person, so that all people may know his work. ⁸Then the wild animal goes into its lair and remains in its den. ⁹From its chamber comes the storm, and from the scattering winds the cold. ¹⁰By the breath of God ice is formed, and the broad waters are frozen tight. ¹¹Also with moisture he loads the cloud; he scatters his cloud of lightning. ¹²And it turns about by his guidance, to do all that he commands across the face of the inhabited earth. ¹³Whether for a rod, or for his land, or for covenant love, he causes it to happen. ¹⁴Listen to this, Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. ¹⁵Do you know how God sets these things in place, or makes the lightning of his cloud shine? ¹⁶Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonders of one perfect in knowledge? ¹⁷You whose garments grow hot when the land lies still under the south wind, ¹⁸Can you, with him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror? ¹⁹Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot arrange our words because of darkness. ²⁰Should it be told him that I would speak? If a person said so, would he be swallowed up? ²¹And now they do not see the light, though it is bright in the skies; but the wind passes and clears them. ²²From the north comes golden splendor; upon God is awesome majesty. ²³The Almighty—we cannot reach him. He is great in power, and in justice and abundance of righteousness he does not oppress. ²⁴Therefore people fear him; he does not regard any who are wise of heart .

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4/11/2026

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