Job 36

¹Eliu also proceeded, and said:

²Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God’s behalf.

³I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

⁴For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.

⁵God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

⁶But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

⁷He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

⁸And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

⁹He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.

¹⁰He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

¹¹If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

¹²But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

¹³Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

¹⁴Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.

¹⁵He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.