| Chapter 36 |
1 | Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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2 | Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
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3 | I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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4 | For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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5 | Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
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6 | He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
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7 | He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
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8 | And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;
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9 | Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
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10 | He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
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11 | If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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12 | But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
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13 | But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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14 | They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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15 | He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
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16 | Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table would be full of fatness.
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17 | But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
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18 | Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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19 | Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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20 | Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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21 | Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
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22 | Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
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23 | Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
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24 | Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
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25 | Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
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26 | Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
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27 | For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor of it.
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28 | Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
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29 | Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
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30 | Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
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31 | For by them he judgeth the people; he giveth food in abundance.
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32 | With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the intervening cloud.
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33 | The noise of it showeth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.
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