Job · Brenton's English Septuagint
Job 36 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 And Elius further continued, and said,
1 Elihu also continued, and said,
2 Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach thee: for there is yet speech in me.
2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
3 Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,
3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 I will speak just things truly, and thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words.
4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,
5 “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.
6 He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
7 He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but [they shall be] with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.
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 But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.
8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
9 And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.
9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10 But he will hearken to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.
10 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they should hear and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honour.
11 If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.
12 But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
13 And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.
13 “But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
14 Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers [of death].
14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
15 Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.
15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
16 And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:
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 [there is] a deep gulf [and] a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;
17 “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18 but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.
18 Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
19 Let not [thy] mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.
19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
20 And draw not forth all the mighty [men] by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.
20 Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21 But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong: for of this thou hast made choice because of poverty.
21 Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
22 Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?
22 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
23 And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, He has wrought injustice?
23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
24 Remember that his works are great [beyond] those which men have attempted.
24 “Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
25 Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.
25 All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
26 Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know [him]: the number of his years is even infinite.
26 Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
27 And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.
27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
28 The ancient [heavens] shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals:
28 which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
28a he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest.
·
28b [Yet] by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in [thy] body.
·
29 And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, [or] the measure of his tabernacle;
29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
30 behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
31 For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.
31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
32 He has hidden the light in [his] hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing [cloud].
32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
33 The Lord will declare concerning this [to] his friend: [but there is] a portion also for unrighteousness.
33 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Job 21:3; Job 13:7–8; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Ezekiel 2:7; Hebrews 13:22
- 3 James 3:17; James 1:17; Psalm 145:17; Job 8:3; Daniel 9:14
- 4 Proverbs 8:7–8; Job 37:16; Psalm 49:3; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 2 Timothy 3:16–17
- 5 Psalm 22:24; Psalm 138:6; Jeremiah 10:12; Psalm 147:5; Job 37:23
- 6 Psalm 140:12; Psalm 72:12–14; 2 Peter 2:9; Job 5:15; Exodus 22:22–24
- 7 Psalm 34:15; Psalm 33:18; 1 Samuel 2:8; Psalm 113:7–8; 2 Thessalonians 3:3
- 8 Psalm 107:10; Proverbs 5:22; Job 13:27; Psalm 116:3; Job 19:6
- 9 1 Corinthians 11:32; Job 15:25; Psalm 119:71; Ezekiel 18:28–31; Romans 5:20
- 10 Isaiah 55:6–7; Job 36:15; Matthew 3:8; 2 Kings 17:13; Job 33:16–23
- 11 Jeremiah 7:23; Isaiah 1:19; Jeremiah 26:13; Deuteronomy 4:30; Hebrews 11:8
- 12 Job 4:21; Romans 2:8–9; Isaiah 3:11; Isaiah 1:20; Deuteronomy 18:15–22
- 13 Romans 2:5; Job 27:8–10; Job 36:8; 2 Chronicles 28:13; Job 35:9–10
- 14 Job 22:16; Job 15:32; Deuteronomy 23:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 21:23–25
- 15 Job 36:10
- 16 Psalm 23:5; Psalm 118:5; Psalm 31:8; Psalm 18:19; Psalm 63:5
- 17 Romans 1:32; Revelation 18:4; Job 34:36; Job 16:5; Job 22:11
- 18 Ephesians 5:6; Job 33:24; Romans 1:18; Psalm 110:5; Psalm 49:7–8
- 19 Proverbs 11:4; Proverbs 11:21; Job 9:13; James 5:3; Isaiah 37:36
- 20 Job 34:20; Exodus 12:29; Job 34:25; 2 Kings 19:35; Job 14:13
- 21 Psalm 66:18; Hebrews 11:25; 1 Peter 3:17; Matthew 16:24; Daniel 3:16–18
- 22 1 Samuel 2:7–8; Romans 13:1; Luke 1:52; Jeremiah 27:5–8; Isaiah 48:17
- 23 1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:13–14; Job 8:3; Job 34:10; Ephesians 1:11
- 24 Revelation 15:3; Psalm 145:10–12; Psalm 72:18; Psalm 111:2–4; Luke 1:46
- 26 Psalm 90:2; Psalm 145:3; Job 11:7–9; 1 Kings 8:27; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 27 Psalm 147:8; Job 5:9; Psalm 148:8; Job 38:25–28; Psalm 65:9–13
- 28 Proverbs 3:20; Genesis 7:11–12; Job 37:11–13
- 29 Job 37:16; Job 37:2–5; Psalm 29:3–10; Job 26:14; Nahum 1:3
- 30 Job 38:25; Exodus 14:22; Exodus 14:28; Genesis 1:9; Psalm 18:11–16
- 31 Psalm 136:25; Job 37:13; Acts 14:17; Psalm 104:13–15; Psalm 65:9–13
- 32 Psalm 18:11; Psalm 147:8–9; Job 37:15; Psalm 148:8; Psalm 135:7
- 33 Job 37:2; Job 36:29; 2 Samuel 22:14; 1 Kings 18:41–45; Joel 2:22
- 28a Proverbs 3:20; Genesis 7:11–12; Job 37:11–13
- 28b Proverbs 3:20; Genesis 7:11–12; Job 37:11–13
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Learn then thine own weakness; learn from this instance the mightiness of God: for He hath numbered the drops of rain, which have been poured down on all the earth, not only now but in all time.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
He who planned all with weight and measure, He who, according to the word of Job, knows the number of the drops of rain, knew how long His work would last, and for how much consumption of fire He ought to allow.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)