mkjv - Job:32-37

mkjv@Job:32:1 @ And these three men ceased from answering Job, because he [was] righteous in his own eyes.

mkjv@Job:32:2 @ And burned the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. His wrath burned against Job, because he had justified himself rather than God.

mkjv@Job:32:3 @ Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer and had condemned Job.

mkjv@Job:32:4 @ And Elihu had waited beside Job with words, because they [were] older than he in days.

mkjv@Job:32:5 @ When Elihu saw that there [was] no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

mkjv@Job:32:6 @ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I [am] young, and you [are] very old; therefore I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.

mkjv@Job:32:7 @ I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom.

mkjv@Job:32:8 @ But a spirit [is] in man giving them perception, even the breath of the Almighty.

mkjv@Job:32:9 @ [It is] not the great that are wise, nor the aged who understand judgment.

mkjv@Job:32:10 @ Therefore I say, Listen to me. I also will declare my opinion.

mkjv@Job:32:11 @ Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasons, while you searched out what to say.

mkjv@Job:32:12 @ Yes, I listened to you, and, behold, not one of you proved Job wrong [nor] answered his words,

mkjv@Job:32:13 @ that you do not say, We have found out wisdom. God has pushed him down, not man.

mkjv@Job:32:14 @ And he has not directed his words against me; and I will not answer him with your words.

mkjv@Job:32:15 @ They are broken; they answer no more; words have left them.

mkjv@Job:32:16 @ Shall I wait because you do not speak, because they stand still, answering no more?

mkjv@Job:32:17 @ I also will answer my part; I also will declare my wisdom.

mkjv@Job:32:18 @ For I am full of words; the spirit within me presses on me.

mkjv@Job:32:19 @ Behold, my breast [is] as wine which has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins.

mkjv@Job:32:20 @ I will speak so that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

mkjv@Job:32:21 @ I will not now lift up the face of a man, nor eulogize [any] man,

mkjv@Job:32:22 @ For I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker would take me away.

mkjv@Job:33:1 @ However, Job, please hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.

mkjv@Job:33:2 @ Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth,

mkjv@Job:33:3 @ my words [shall be] from my upright heart, and my lips will clearly speak knowledge.

mkjv@Job:33:4 @ The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

mkjv@Job:33:5 @ If you can, answer me; set yourself in order before me, stand up.

mkjv@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I [am] toward God even as you [are]; I also am formed out of the clay.

mkjv@Job:33:7 @ Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, and my burden shall not be heavy on you.

mkjv@Job:33:8 @ Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of [your] words.

mkjv@Job:33:9 @ [You said], I [am] pure, without transgression; I [am] innocent, and no iniquity [is] in me;

mkjv@Job:33:10 @ behold, He finds reasons to be against me, He counts me for His enemy;

mkjv@Job:33:11 @ He puts my feet in the stocks; He marks all my paths.

mkjv@Job:33:12 @ Behold, [in] this you are not right; I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

mkjv@Job:33:13 @ Why do you fight against Him? For He does not give account for [any] of His matters.

mkjv@Job:33:14 @ For God speaks once, yea, twice, [but] not one takes notice.

mkjv@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while [they] slumber on the bed;

mkjv@Job:33:16 @ then He opens the ear of men and seals their teaching,

mkjv@Job:33:17 @ so that He may turn man [from his] act, that He might hide pride from man.

mkjv@Job:33:18 @ He keeps back his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

mkjv@Job:33:19 @ He is also chastened with pain on his bed, and enduring strife [in] his bones;

mkjv@Job:33:20 @ so that his life is sick of bread, and his soul desirable food.

mkjv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh wastes away, not seen; and his bones laid bare; they were not seen.

mkjv@Job:33:22 @ Yea, his soul draws near to the Pit, and his life to the dealers of death.

mkjv@Job:33:23 @ If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare for man his uprightness,

mkjv@Job:33:24 @ then He is gracious to him and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit; for I have found a ransom.

mkjv@Job:33:25 @ His flesh shall be fresher than in vigor; he shall return to the days of his youth;

mkjv@Job:33:26 @ he shall pray to God, and He will be gracious to Him; and he shall see His face with joy, for He will restore to man his righteousness.

mkjv@Job:33:27 @ He will observe to men, and say, I have sinned and perverted righteousness; and it was not equally repaid to me,

mkjv@Job:33:28 @ He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

mkjv@Job:33:29 @ Lo, all these [things] God does two or three times with a man,

mkjv@Job:33:30 @ to bring back his soul from the Pit, to be lighted with the light of the living.

mkjv@Job:33:31 @ Hear this, Job, listen to me; be silent and I will speak.

mkjv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

mkjv@Job:33:33 @ If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

mkjv@Job:34:1 @ And Elihu answered and said,

mkjv@Job:34:2 @ Hear my words, wise men; and give ear to me, you who have knowledge;

mkjv@Job:34:3 @ For the ear tries words, [as] the palate tastes food.

mkjv@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

mkjv@Job:34:5 @ For Job has said, I am righteous; and God has taken away my right;

mkjv@Job:34:6 @ should I lie against my right? My wound cannot be cured; [I am] without rebellion.

mkjv@Job:34:7 @ What man [is] like Job, [who] drinks up scorning like water;

mkjv@Job:34:8 @ who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

mkjv@Job:34:9 @ For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God.

mkjv@Job:34:10 @ Therefore listen to me, O man of heart; far be it from God to commit iniquity; and from the Almighty, to do wrong.

mkjv@Job:34:11 @ For He repays man's work, and causes him to find according to [his] ways.

mkjv@Job:34:12 @ Yes, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

mkjv@Job:34:13 @ Who has given the earth as a deposit with Him? Or who has set the whole world in order?

mkjv@Job:34:14 @ If He sets His heart on man, [if] He gathers to Himself his spirit and his breath,

mkjv@Job:34:15 @ all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

mkjv@Job:34:16 @ If now [you have] understanding, hear this; listen to the sound of my words.

mkjv@Job:34:17 @ Shall one who hates right govern? And will you condemn Him who is just and mighty?

mkjv@Job:34:18 @ Who says to a king, O worthless one; and to nobles, O evil one?

mkjv@Job:34:19 @ [How much less to Him who] does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them [are] the work of His hands.

mkjv@Job:34:20 @ In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without a hand.

mkjv@Job:34:21 @ For His eyes [are] on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.

mkjv@Job:34:22 @ There is no darkness, nor shadow of death to hide there the workers of iniquity.

mkjv@Job:34:23 @ For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment.

mkjv@Job:34:24 @ He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their place.

mkjv@Job:34:25 @ Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns in the night, so that they are destroyed.

mkjv@Job:34:26 @ He strikes them for evil deeds in the place of the watchers,

mkjv@Job:34:27 @ because thus they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways;

mkjv@Job:34:28 @ [so as] to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

mkjv@Job:34:29 @ And He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides [His] face, who can behold Him? And [it may be] against a nation and a man together;

mkjv@Job:34:30 @ from the reigning of ungodly men, from [being] snares for the people.

mkjv@Job:34:31 @ For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?

mkjv@Job:34:32 @ Besides what I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.

mkjv@Job:34:33 @ Must He repay because you rejected [it]? For you must choose, and not I; therefore speak what you know.

mkjv@Job:34:34 @ Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who hears me [will say],

mkjv@Job:34:35 @ Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

mkjv@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job may be tried to the end because [his] answers [are] like men of iniquity.

mkjv@Job:34:37 @ For he adds rebellion to his sins; he claps [his] hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.

mkjv@Job:35:1 @ And Elihu answered and said,

mkjv@Job:35:2 @ Do you think this to [be] right, you [that] say, I am more just than God?

mkjv@Job:35:3 @ For you say, What will it benefit you? And, What good shall I have more than [if] I had sinned?

mkjv@Job:35:4 @ I will answer your words, and your friends with you.

mkjv@Job:35:5 @ Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.

mkjv@Job:35:6 @ If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

mkjv@Job:35:7 @ If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

mkjv@Job:35:8 @ Your wickedness [may hurt] a man like yourself; and your righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

mkjv@Job:35:9 @ From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.

mkjv@Job:35:10 @ But none says, Where [is] God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

mkjv@Job:35:11 @ who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

mkjv@Job:35:12 @ There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

mkjv@Job:35:13 @ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look on it.

mkjv@Job:35:14 @ How [much less] when you say you do not see Him! Judgment [is] before Him; you are waiting for Him.

mkjv@Job:35:15 @ And now, because His anger has not visited, and He does not recognize stupidity,

mkjv@Job:35:16 @ even Job opens his mouth in vanity; he multiplies words without knowledge.

mkjv@Job:36:1 @ Elihu went on and said,

mkjv@Job:36:2 @ Wait for me a little, and I will show you that [there are] yet words for God.

mkjv@Job:36:3 @ I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.

mkjv@Job:36:4 @ For truly my words [are] not false; He who is perfect in knowledge [is] with you.

mkjv@Job:36:5 @ Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise; [He is] mighty in strength of heart.

mkjv@Job:36:6 @ He will not keep alive one who is wicked, but gives right to the afflicted.

mkjv@Job:36:7 @ He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but [they are] like kings on the throne; yes, [He] causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.

mkjv@Job:36:8 @ And if they [are] bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction,

mkjv@Job:36:9 @ then He shows them their work, and their sins, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

mkjv@Job:36:10 @ He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from iniquity.

mkjv@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.

mkjv@Job:36:12 @ But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

mkjv@Job:36:13 @ But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them.

mkjv@Job:36:14 @ Their soul dies in youth, and their life [ends] among the sodomites.

mkjv@Job:36:15 @ He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression.

mkjv@Job:36:16 @ And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress [to] a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table [would be] full of fatness.

mkjv@Job:36:17 @ But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold;

mkjv@Job:36:18 @ For [beware] wrath, that He not lure you with [His] scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.

mkjv@Job:36:19 @ [If] your cry for help is set in order, then [it will] not [be]. in distress, but with all the forces of strength.

mkjv@Job:36:20 @ Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

mkjv@Job:36:21 @ Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

mkjv@Job:36:22 @ Behold, God is exalted in His power; who teaches like Him?

mkjv@Job:36:23 @ Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong?

mkjv@Job:36:24 @ Remember that you magnify His work of which men have sung;

mkjv@Job:36:25 @ every man has seen it; man may see [it] afar off.

mkjv@Job:36:26 @ Behold, God [is] great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.

mkjv@Job:36:27 @ For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist,

mkjv@Job:36:28 @ which the clouds pour down [and] drop on man plentifully.

mkjv@Job:36:29 @ Also can [any] understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy?

mkjv@Job:36:30 @ Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea.

mkjv@Job:36:31 @ For by them He judges the people; He gives plenty of food.

mkjv@Job:36:32 @ He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;

mkjv@Job:36:33 @ its thunder declares concerning Him, and the cattle, concerning what is coming.

mkjv@Job:37:1 @ My heart trembles at this also, and it leaps out of its place.

mkjv@Job:37:2 @ Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes out of His mouth.

mkjv@Job:37:3 @ He loosens it under the whole heavens, and His lightning to the ends of the earth.

mkjv@Job:37:4 @ After it a voice roars; He thunders with the voice of His majesty, and He will not hold them when His voice is heard.

mkjv@Job:37:5 @ God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things, and we do not understand.

mkjv@Job:37:6 @ For He says to the snow, Fall [on] the earth; also to the shower of rain, and to the shower of [heavy] rains in its strength.

mkjv@Job:37:7 @ He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

mkjv@Job:37:8 @ Then the beast goes into its lair, and it remains in its dens.

mkjv@Job:37:9 @ Out of the storeroom comes the tempest; and cold from scattering winds.

mkjv@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God ice is given; and the expanse of waters is frozen tight.

mkjv@Job:37:11 @ Also He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters the lightning cloud,

mkjv@Job:37:12 @ and it is turned around by His guidance, so that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world in the earth.

mkjv@Job:37:13 @ Whether as a whip, or for His land, or for mercy, He finds it.

mkjv@Job:37:14 @ Listen to this, Job; stand still, and consider the wonderful works of God.

mkjv@Job:37:15 @ Do you know when God placed them, and caused the lightning of His cloud to shine?

mkjv@Job:37:16 @ Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

mkjv@Job:37:17 @ You whose clothes warm when He quiets the earth from the south wind?

mkjv@Job:37:18 @ Have you beat out the expanse with Him, hard like a cast mirror?

mkjv@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to Him; [for] because of darkness we cannot arrange our case.

mkjv@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be told Him that I would speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

mkjv@Job:37:21 @ And now men cannot look upon the light; it [is] in the clouds; but the wind passes and clears them.

mkjv@Job:37:22 @ Golden [splendor] comes out of the north; God [is] awesome in His majesty.

mkjv@Job:37:23 @ The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, [is] exalted in power; and to judgment and overflowing righteousness He does no violence.

mkjv@Job:37:24 @ Therefore, men fear Him; He does not respect any [who are] wise in heart.

mkjv@Job:38:1 @ And the LORD answered Job out of the tempest, and said,