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Job 36 : 1 - 33
Chapter 36
1 | Elihu also proceeded and said:
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2 | "Bear with me a little, and I will show you That there are yet words to speak on God's behalf.
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3 | I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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4 | For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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5 | "Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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6 | He does not preserve the life of the wicked, But gives justice to the oppressed.
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7 | He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, And they are exalted.
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8 | And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction,
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9 | Then He tells them their work and their transgressions--That they have acted defiantly.
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10 | He also opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they turn 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 do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
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13 | "But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; They do not cry for help when He binds them.
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14 | They die in youth, And their life ends among the perverted persons.
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15 | He delivers the poor in their affliction, And opens their ears in oppression.
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16 | "Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress, Into a broad place where there is no restraint; And what is set on your table would be full of richness.
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17 | But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you.
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18 | Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.
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19 | Will your riches, Or all the mighty forces, Keep you from distress?
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20 | Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
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21 | Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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22 | "Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
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23 | Who has assigned Him His way, Or who has said, "You have done wrong'?
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24 | "Remember to magnify His work, Of which men have sung.
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25 | Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.
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26 | "Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
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27 | For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,
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28 | Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.
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29 | Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
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30 | Look, He scatters His light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea.
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31 | For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
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32 | He covers His hands with lightning, And commands it to strike.
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33 | His thunder declares it, The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.
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