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CHAPTER 36
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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
20
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.
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.
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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.
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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 judgeth he the
people; he giveth meat in abundance.
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With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it
not
to shine
by
the cloud
that cometh betwixt.
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The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle
also concerning the vapour.
CHAPTER 37
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
2
Hear attentively the noise of his
voice, and the sound
that
goeth out of his mouth.
3
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his
lightning unto the ends of the earth.
4
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his
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