Job 36:5-12

Revised Standard Version

⁵ “Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any;
    he is mighty in strength of understanding.
⁶ He does not keep the wicked alive,
    but gives the afflicted their right.
⁷ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
    but with kings upon the throne
    he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
⁸ And if they are bound in fetters
    and caught in the cords of affliction,
⁹ then he declares to them their work
    and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
¹⁰ He opens their ears to instruction,
    and commands that they return from iniquity.
¹¹ If they hearken and serve him,
    they complete their days in prosperity,
    and their years in pleasantness.
¹² But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword,
    and die without knowledge.