Job 36
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Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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Suffer me a little, and I will show you; For I have yet somewhat to say on God`s behalf.
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I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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He preserves not the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted [their] right.
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He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He sets
them for ever, and they are exalted.
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And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
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Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves
proudly.
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He opens also their ear to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.
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If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their
years in pleasures.
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But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without
knowledge.
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But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he binds
them.
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They die in youth, And their life [perishes] among the unclean.
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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.
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Yea, he would have allured you out of distress Into a broad place, where there is
no straitness; And that which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
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But you are full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on
you].
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For let not anger stir you up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of
the ransom turn you aside.
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Will your cry avail, [that you be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [your] strength?
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Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
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Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this have you chosen rather than affliction.
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Behold, God does loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like to him?
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Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have wrought unrighteousness?
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Remember that you magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.
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All men have looked thereon; Man beholds it afar off.
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Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
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For he draws up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
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Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
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Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
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Behold, he spreads his light around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea.
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For by these he judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
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He covers his hands with the lightning, And gives it a charge that it strike the mark.
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Its noise tells concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that
comes up.