Job 36

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1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
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3 I will fetch 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 you.
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5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
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6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
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7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
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8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;
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9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
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10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands 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 binds them.
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14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
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16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no narrow place; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.
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17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
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18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
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19 Will he esteem your 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 have you chosen rather than affliction.
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22 Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
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23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?
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24 Remember that you 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 makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:
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28 Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.
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29 Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
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30 Behold, he spreads his light on it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
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31 For by them judges he the people; he gives meat in abundance.
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32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.
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33 The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.
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