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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 36
Chapter 539 of 1,075
Canonical reference Job 36
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
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.
10. He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11. If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12. But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
13. “But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
14. They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
15. He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
16. Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
17. “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18. Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
19. Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
20. Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21. Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
22. Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
23. Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
24. “Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
25. All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
26. Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
27. For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
28. which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
29. Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
30. Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
31. For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
32. He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
33. Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. Eliu reprit encore une fois et dit :
2. Attends un peu, et je t’instruirai, car j’ai des paroles encore pour la cause de Dieu ;
3. je prendrai mes raisons de haut, et je montrerai la justice de mon Créateur.
4. Sois-en sûr, mes discours sont exempts de mensonge ; devant toi est un homme sincère en ses jugements.
5. Voici que Dieu est puissant, mais il ne dédaigne personne ; il est puissant par la force de son intelligence.
6. Il ne laisse pas vivre le méchant, et il fait justice aux malheureux.
7. Il ne détourne pas ses yeux des justes ; il les fait asseoir sur le trône avec les rois, il les établit pour toujours, et ils sont exaltés.
8. Viennent-ils à tomber dans les fers, sont-ils pris dans les liens du malheur,
9. il leur dénonce leurs œuvres, leurs fautes causées par l’orgueil.
10. Il ouvre leur oreille à la réprimande, il les exhorte à se détourner du mal.
11. S’ils écoutent et se soumettent, ils achèvent leurs jours dans le bonheur, et leurs années dans les délices.
12. Mais s’ils n’écoutent pas, ils périssent par le glaive, ils meurent dans leur aveuglement.
13. Les cœurs impies se livrent à la colère, ils ne crient pas vers Dieu quand il les met dans les chaînes.
14. Aussi meurent-ils dans leur jeunesse, et leur vie se flétrit comme celle des infâmes.
15. Mais Dieu sauve le malheureux dans sa misère, il l’instruit par la souffrance.
16. Toi aussi, il te retirera de la détresse, pour te mettre au large, en pleine liberté, et ta table sera dressée et chargée de mets succulents.
17. Mais si tu combles la mesure de l’impie, tu en porteras la sentence et la peine.
18. Crains que Dieu irrité ne t’inflige un châtiment, et que tes riches offrandes ne t’égarent.
19. Tes cris te tireront-ils de la détresse, et même toutes les ressources de la force ?
20. Ne soupire pas après la nuit, durant laquelle les peuples sont anéantis sur place.
21. Prends garde de te tourner vers l’iniquité, car tu la préfères à l’affliction.
22. Vois : Dieu est sublime dans sa puissance ! Quel maître est semblable à lui ?
23. Qui lui trace la voie qu’il doit suivre ? Qui peut lui dire : « Tu as mal fait ? »
24. Songe plutôt à glorifier ses œuvres, que les hommes célèbrent dans leurs chants.
25. Tout homme les admire, le mortel les contemple de loin.
26. Dieu est grand au-dessus de toute science, le nombre de ses années est impénétrable.
27. Il attire les gouttes d’eau, qui se répandent en pluie sous leur poids.
28. Les nuées la laissent couler, et tomber sur la masse des hommes.
29. Qui comprendra l’expansion des nuages, et le fracas de la tente du Très-Haut ?
30. Tantôt il étend autour de lui sa lumière, tantôt il se cache comme au fond de la mer.
31. C’est ainsi qu’il exerce sa justice sur les peuples, et qu’il donne la nourriture avec abondance.
32. Il prend la lumière dans ses mains, et lui marque le but à atteindre.
33. Son tonnerre l’annonce, l’effroi des troupeaux annonce son approche.
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. Addens quoque Eliu, hæc locutus est:
2. [Sustine me paululum, et indicabo tibi: adhuc enim habeo quod pro Deo loquar.
3. Repetam scientiam meam a principio, et operatorem meum probabo justum.
4. Vere enim absque mendacio sermones mei, et perfecta scientia probabitur tibi.
5. Deus potentes non abjicit, cum et ipse sit potens:
6. sed non salvat impios, et judicium pauperibus tribuit.
7. Non auferet a justo oculos suos: et reges in solio collocat in perpetuum, et illi eriguntur.
8. Et si fuerint in catenis, et vinciantur funibus paupertatis,
9. indicabit eis opera eorum, et scelera eorum, quia violenti fuerunt.
10. Revelabit quoque aurem eorum, ut corripiat: et loquetur, ut revertantur ab iniquitate.
11. Si audierint et observaverint, complebunt dies suos in bono, et annos suos in gloria:
12. si autem non audierint, transibunt per gladium, et consumentur in stultitia.
13. Simulatores et callidi provocant iram Dei, neque clamabunt cum vincti fuerint.
14. Morietur in tempestate anima eorum, et vita eorum inter effeminatos.
15. Eripiet de angustia sua pauperem, et revelabit in tribulatione aurem ejus.
16. Igitur salvabit te de ore angusto latissime, et non habente fundamentum subter se: requies autem mensæ tuæ erit plena pinguedine.
17. Causa tua quasi impii judicata est: causam judiciumque recipies.
18. Non te ergo superet ira ut aliquem opprimas: nec multitudo donorum inclinet te.
19. Depone magnitudinem tuam absque tribulatione, et omnes robustos fortitudine.
20. Ne protrahas noctem, ut ascendant populi pro eis.
21. Cave ne declines ad iniquitatem: hanc enim cœpisti sequi post miseriam.
22. Ecce Deus excelsus in fortitudine sua, et nullus ei similis in legislatoribus.
23. Quis poterit scrutari vias ejus? aut quis potest ei dicere: Operatus es iniquitatem?
24. Memento quod ignores opus ejus, de quo cecinerunt viri.
25. Omnes homines vident eum: unusquisque intuetur procul.
26. Ecce Deus magnus vincens scientiam nostram: numerus annorum ejus inæstimabilis.
27. Qui aufert stillas pluviæ, et effundit imbres ad instar gurgitum,
28. qui de nubibus fluunt quæ prætexunt cuncta desuper.
29. Si voluerit extendere nubes quasi tentorium suum,
30. et fulgurare lumine suo desuper, cardines quoque maris operiet.
31. Per hæc enim judicat populos, et dat escas multis mortalibus.
32. In manibus abscondit lucem, et præcepit ei ut rursus adveniat.
33. Annuntiat de ea amico suo, quod possessio ejus sit, et ad eam possit ascendere.]
Concepts in this passage
Anger
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Care of the soul
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Creation
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Death
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Desire
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Dukkha
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Ether and field
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Faith
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Family
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Force
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Freedom
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Friendship
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God
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Judgment
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Justice
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Knowledge
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Law
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Memory
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Pleasure
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Poverty and wealth
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Reason
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Roles and relationships
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Service
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Sin
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1Elihu also continued, and said,
- Verse 2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
- Verse 3I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- Verse 4For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- Verse 5“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- Verse 6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
- Verse 7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
- Verse 8If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
- Verse 9then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
- Verse 10He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
- Verse 11If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- Verse 12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
- Verse 13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
- Verse 14They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
- Verse 15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
- Verse 16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table…
- Verse 17“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
- Verse 18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- Verse 19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
- Verse 20Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- Verse 21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
- Verse 22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
- Verse 23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
- Verse 24“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
- Verse 25All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
- Verse 26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
- Verse 27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
- Verse 28which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
- Verse 29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
- Verse 30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
- Verse 31For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
- Verse 32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
- Verse 33Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.