| Chapter 36
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| 1 | Elihu also
proceeded, and said, |
| 2 |
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's
behalf. |
| 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. |
| 6 | He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth
right to the poor. |
| 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 20 | 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. |
| 22
| Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? |
| 23 | Who hath enjoined him his way? or
who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? |
| 24 | Remember that thou magnify his work, which men
behold. |
| 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 maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain
according to the vapour thereof: |
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28 | 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? |
| 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. |
| 33 | The
noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. |
