Job 36:1-9 ▼

1 Elihu also continued, and said,

2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5 “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

6 He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

7 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.