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    Job · 33 verses

    Job 36

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    Elihu gives God lightning to hold in His hands, then lets the cattle watch the storm.

    Elihu claims the floorvv. 1–7

    Elihu continues, asking for a little more time and promising to speak on God’s behalf. He presents himself as one who gets knowledge from afar and ascribes justice to his Maker, while describing God as mighty in understanding: the wicked are not kept alive, the afflicted receive justice, and the righteous remain under His eye, enthroned with kings.

    The affliction becomes a lessonvv. 8–21

    When people are bound in affliction, Elihu says, God tells them what they have done, opens their ears to correction, and commands them to turn from iniquity. Obedience leads to prosperity; refusal leads to death without knowledge. Then comes the chapter’s startling aside: the godless may die young, “among the male shrine prostitutes.” Elihu turns this argument toward Job, saying that God drew him from distress into spacious richness, but that judgment has now seized him, and warning him not to let wealth, bribes, or a longing for the night draw him toward iniquity.

    The storm takes the pulpitvv. 22–33

    Elihu lifts his speech from warning Job to the scale of God’s works: rain distilled from mist, clouds pouring over mankind, thunder roaring from a pavilion, and lightning scattered across the sea. God fills His hands with lightning and directs it toward its mark. The nations receive judgment and food from the same workings, while the thunder declares His presence—and, in the wonderfully ordinary final glance, even the cattle regard the rising storm.

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    1. Job 36:1And Elihu continued:

    2. Job 36:2“Bear with me a little longer, and I will show you that there is more to be said on God’s behalf.

    3. Job 36:3I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

    4. Job 36:4For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.

    5. Job 36:5Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

    6. Job 36:6He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.

    7. Job 36:7He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.

    8. Job 36:8And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

    9. Job 36:9then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

    10. Job 36:10He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

    11. Job 36:11If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

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

    13. Job 36:13The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

    14. Job 36:14They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

    15. Job 36:15God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

    16. Job 36:16Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

    17. Job 36:17But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.

    18. Job 36:18Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.

    19. Job 36:19Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

    20. Job 36:20Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

    21. Job 36:21Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

    22. Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

    23. Job 36:23Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?

    24. Job 36:24Remember to magnify His work, which men have praised in song.

    25. Job 36:25All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.

    26. Job 36:26Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

    27. Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

    28. Job 36:28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

    29. Job 36:29Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

    30. Job 36:30See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

    31. Job 36:31For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

    32. Job 36:32He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

    33. Job 36:33The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.’’

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 7Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
    • 7Psalms 33:18Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
    • 71 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
    • 11Jeremiah 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
    • 11Jeremiah 26:13So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
    • 11Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
    • 72 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
    • 11Deuteronomy 4:30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
    • 7Esther 10:3For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
    • 71 Peter 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
    • 7Job 42:12So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
    • 11Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
    • 16Psalms 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
    • 221 Samuel 2:7–8The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
    • 26Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
    • 5Psalms 22:24For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

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