Chapter 36

  And Elihu proceeded and said,  

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  Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.  

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  I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.  

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  For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.  

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  Lo, ùGod is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:  

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  He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.  

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  He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.  

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  And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,  

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  Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.  

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  And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.  

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  If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.  

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  But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.  

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  But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:  

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  Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.  

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  But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.  

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  Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.  

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  But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].  

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  Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.  

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  Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!  

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  Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.  

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  Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.  

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  Lo, ùGod is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?  

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  Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?  

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  Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.  

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  All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.  

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  Lo, ùGod is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.  

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  For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,  

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  Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.  

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  But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?  

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  Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.  

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  For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.  

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  [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.  

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  His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.  

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