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The Book of Job 36

36 Then Elihu said some more things to Job:

2 “Job, be patient with me a little longer as I explain things to you.

Be patient, because I have more to say in order to show that God does not do anything wrong.

3 I will tell you what I have learned from many sources.

I will show that God, who made me, always does what is right.

4 You can indeed listen patiently because I will not say anything to you that is false.

I am here with you as someone who understands things well.

5 Truly, God is very powerful, but he values every person.

He understands everything completely.

6 He does not allow wicked people to remain alive,

but he helps people whom others have been oppressing.

7 He always protects people who are righteous.

He makes them prosper as if they were kings,

and he causes others to honor them continually.

8 Sometimes people suffer great troubles because they have done wrong things.

9 When they do, God shows them what they have done wrong.

He shows them that they committed these sins because they were proud.

10 He enables them to understand what he is teaching them.

He commands them to stop sinning.

11 If they obey him and once again live as he wishes,

they will prosper and be happy for as long as they live.

12 But if they do not obey him,

they will die violently

because they did not seek to understand how God wanted them to live.

13 People who do not respect God continue to be angry with God.

They do not ask God to help them

even when they are suffering because of their sins.

14 They can only make a living in a dishonorable way,

and they die while they are still young.

15 God actually uses suffering to keep people from perishing because of their sins.

By making them suffer, he causes them to listen to what he is telling them.

16 Job, I believe that God wants to bring you out of your troubles

and allow you to live without distress.

He wants you to be happy and prosperous.

17 However, you are still saying bad things about God the way a wicked person would.

That is why God is punishing you so severely.

18 You are angry with God, but do not let that lead you to say disrespectful things about God.

If you did that, God would not accept even a very large bribe to pardon you.

19 God would not want your money and so pardon you.

He would not take gold or a great deal of money as a bribe.

20 You should not wish that you could die so that your suffering would be over.

Once people die, they are gone.

21 Be careful not to commit sin.

It seems that you would rather defy God than learn what he wants to teach you through suffering.

22 Truly, God is so powerful that he can do great things.

He is better than any other teacher.

23 No one has ever told him what he should do.

No one has ever had to tell him that what he was doing was wrong.

24 People have often sung songs to praise him.

You too should remember what he has done and praise him for it.

25 Everyone has seen what God has done,

but even so, people only understand it a little.

26 How great God is! We are not able to understand how great he is,

and we are not able to determine how old he is.

27 Indeed, God draws water up from the earth and puts it in clouds

and causes it to become rain.

28 This rain pours down from the clouds

and abundant showers fall on the earth, where people live.

29 No one can really understand how the clouds spread across the sky

or how it thunders in the sky where God lives.

30 See how God causes lightning to flash all around him!

The lightning is so bright that it lights up even the deep ocean.

31 Because his storms are so great, God uses them to punish wicked people.

But he also uses the rain from these storms to provide abundant food for righteous people.

32 It is as if God picks up lightning in his hands

and sends it to strike where he wants it to.

33 God makes thunder to announce that there will be a storm.

We also know that a storm is coming when we hear cattle making extra noise.

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