Chapter 36
- 36:1
- Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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- Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
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- I will fetch 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; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
- 36:8
- 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.
- 36:10
- He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- 36:11
- If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- 36:12
- But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
- 36:13
- But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
- 36:14
- They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
- 36:15
- He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
- 36:16
- 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.
- 36:17
- But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
- 36:18
- Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
- 36:19
- Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
- 36:20
- Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- 36:21
- Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- 36:22
- Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
- 36:23
- 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.
- 36:26
- Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
- 36:27
- 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.
- 36:29
- Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
- 36:30
- Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- 36:31
- For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
- 36:32
- With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
- 36:33
- The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
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