The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Job
36:1. Eliu also proceeded, and said:
36:2. Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat
to speak in God's behalf.
36:3. I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my
Maker just.
36:4. For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall
be proved to thee.
36:5. God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is
mighty.
36:6. But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.
36:7. He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings
on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.
36:8. And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of
poverty:
36:9. He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because
they have been violent.
36:10. He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak,
that they may return from iniquity.
36:11. If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days
in good, and their years in glory.
36:12. But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be
consumed in folly.
36:13. Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall
they cry when they are bound.
36:14. Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the
effeminate.
36:15. He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his
ear in affliction.
36:16. Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and
which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be
full of fatness.
Out of the narrow mouth... That is, out of hell, whose entrance is
narrow, and its depth bottomless; but figuratively meant here, that is,
from his miseries and calamity to be restored to his former state of
happiness.
36:17. Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and
judgment thou shalt recover.
36:18. Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither
let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.
36:19. Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of
strength.
36:20. Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.
36:21. Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun
to follow after misery.
For this thou hast begun to follow after misery... Eliu charges Job,
that notwithstanding his misery, he does not fear God as he ought: but
in his judgment, falls into iniquity.
36:22. Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among
the lawgivers.
36:23. Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast
wrought iniquity?
36:24. Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men
have sung.
36:25. All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
36:26. Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his
years is inestimable.
36:27. He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like
floods:
36:28. Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
36:29. If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
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