rsv Job:35-37
rsv@Job:35:1 @ And Eli'hu said:
rsv@Job:35:2 @ "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ` you say, "It is my right before God,'
rsv@Job:35:3 @ that you ask, `at you ask, "What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
rsv@Job:35:4 @ I will answer you and your friends with you.
rsv@Job:35:5 @ Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
rsv@Job:35:6 @ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
rsv@Job:35:7 @ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
rsv@Job:35:8 @ Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
rsv@Job:35:9 @ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
rsv@Job:35:10 @ But none says, `t none says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
rsv@Job:35:11 @ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
rsv@Job:35:12 @ There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
rsv@Job:35:13 @ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
rsv@Job:35:14 @ How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
rsv@Job:35:15 @ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
rsv@Job:35:16 @ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."
rsv@Job:36:1 @ And Eli'hu continued, and said:
rsv@Job:36:2 @ "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
rsv@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
rsv@Job:36:4 @ For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
rsv@Job:36:5 @ "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
rsv@Job:36:6 @ He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
rsv@Job:36:7 @ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
rsv@Job:36:8 @ And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
rsv@Job:36:9 @ then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
rsv@Job:36:10 @ He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
rsv@Job:36:11 @ If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
rsv@Job:36:12 @ But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
rsv@Job:36:13 @ "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
rsv@Job:36:14 @ They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.
rsv@Job:36:15 @ He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
rsv@Job:36:16 @ He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
rsv@Job:36:17 @ "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
rsv@Job:36:18 @ Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
rsv@Job:36:19 @ Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
rsv@Job:36:20 @ Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
rsv@Job:36:21 @ Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
rsv@Job:36:22 @ Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
rsv@Job:36:23 @ Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ` who can say, "Thou hast done wrong'?
rsv@Job:36:24 @ "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
rsv@Job:36:25 @ All men have looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
rsv@Job:36:26 @ Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
rsv@Job:36:27 @ For he draws up the drops of water, he distils his mist in rain
rsv@Job:36:28 @ which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.
rsv@Job:36:29 @ Can any one understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
rsv@Job:36:30 @ Behold, he scatters his lightning about him, and covers the roots of the sea.
rsv@Job:36:31 @ For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
rsv@Job:36:32 @ He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
rsv@Job:36:33 @ Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.
rsv@Job:37:1 @ "At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.
rsv@Job:37:2 @ Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
rsv@Job:37:3 @ Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
rsv@Job:37:4 @ After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
rsv@Job:37:5 @ God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.
rsv@Job:37:6 @ For to the snow he says, `th'; and to the shower and the rain, "Be strong.'
rsv@Job:37:7 @ He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.
rsv@Job:37:8 @ Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
rsv@Job:37:9 @ From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
rsv@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
rsv@Job:37:11 @ He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
rsv@Job:37:12 @ They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.
rsv@Job:37:13 @ Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.
rsv@Job:37:14 @ "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
rsv@Job:37:15 @ Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
rsv@Job:37:16 @ Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
rsv@Job:37:17 @ you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
rsv@Job:37:18 @ Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
rsv@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
rsv@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
rsv@Job:37:21 @ "And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
rsv@Job:37:22 @ Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with terrible majesty.
rsv@Job:37:23 @ The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
rsv@Job:37:24 @ Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."
rsv@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: