| Chapter 36 |
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Elihu also proceeded, and said, --
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Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. --
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I will bring my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. --
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For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. --
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Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. --
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He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. --
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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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And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction; --
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Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. --
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He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. --
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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. --
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But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. --
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But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. --
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They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. --
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He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. --
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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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But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee. --
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Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. --
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Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. --
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Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. --
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Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. --
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Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? --
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Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? --
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Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. --
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Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. --
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Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. --
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For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor of it. --
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Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly. --
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Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? --
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Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. --
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For by them he judgeth the people; he giveth food in abundance. --
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With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the intervening cloud. --
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The noise of it showeth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor. --
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