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Chapter 36 |
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1 | Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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| 2 | Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee 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. |
| 4 | For truly my words shall not be
false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. |
| 5 | 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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| 7 | He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they
on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are
exalted. |
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| And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords
of affliction; |
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9 | Then he sheweth them their work, and their
transgressions that they have exceeded. |
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10 | He openeth also their ear
to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
| 11 | If
they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their
years in pleasures. |
| 12 | But if they obey not, they shall perish by
the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. |
| 13 | But the
hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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| 14 | They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. |
| 15 | He
delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in
oppression. |
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16 | 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 should be full of fatness. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 19 | 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. |
| 21 | Take
heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than
affliction. |
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22 | 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? |
| 24 | Remember that thou 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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Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the
number of his years be searched out. |
| 27 | For he maketh small the drops
of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: |
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Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. |
| 29 | Also can
any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his
tabernacle? |
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30 | Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and
covereth the bottom of the sea. |
| 31 | For by them judgeth he the
people; he giveth meat in abundance. |
| 32 | With clouds he covereth the
light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
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| 33 | The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the
vapour. |
