Job 36
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Job 36
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<b>1. Elihu also proceeded, and said,</b>
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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.
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4. For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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<b>5. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.</b>
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6. 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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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.
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10. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth 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 bindeth them.
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14. They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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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.
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<b> 17. But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take
hold on thee.</b>
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18. Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great
ransom cannot deliver thee.
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19. Will he esteem thy 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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<b>21. Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.</b>
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22. Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
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23. Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
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<b>24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.</b>
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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 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.
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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.
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31. For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
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32. With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that
cometh betwixt.
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<b> 33. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.</b>
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