Chapter 36

  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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