Job:36

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* Elihu also proceeded , and said , * Allow me a little , and I will show thee . For I have yet somewhat to say on God 's behalf . * I will fetch my knowledge from afar , and will ascribe righteousness to my maker . * (For truly my words are not false .) He who is perfect in knowledge is with thee . * Behold , God is mighty , and does not despise . He is mighty in strength of understanding . * He does not preserve the life of the wicked , but gives to the afflicted [their ] right . * He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous , but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne , and they are exalted . * And if they be bound in fetters , and be taken in the cords of afflictions , * then he shows them their work , and their transgressions , that they have behaved themselves proudly . * He also opens their ear to instruction , and commands that they return from iniquity . * If they hearken and serve [him ], they shall spend their days in prosperity , and their years in pleasures . * But if they do not hearken , they shall perish by the sword , and they shall die without knowledge . * But those who are godless in heart lay up anger . They do not cry for help when he binds them . * They die in youth , and their life [perishes ] among the unclean . * He delivers the afflicted by their affliction , and opens their ear in oppression . * Yea , he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place , where there is no confinement , and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness . * But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked . Judgment and justice take hold , * and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive . * Will thy cry not avail in distress , or all the forces of strength ? * Do not desire the night , when peoples are cut off in their place . * Take heed . Do not turn to iniquity , for thou have fixed on this because of affliction . * Behold , God does loftily in his power . Who is a teacher like him ? * Who has enjoined him his way ? Or who can say , Thou have wrought unrighteousness ? * Remember that thou magnify his work , of which men have sung . * All men have looked on it . Man beholds it afar off . * Behold , God is great , and we do not know him . The number of his years is unsearchable . * For he draws up the drops of water , which distil in rain from his vapor , * which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly . * Yea , can any understand the spreadings of the clouds , the thunderings of his pavilion ? * Behold , he spreads his light around him , and he covers the bottom of the sea . * For by these he judges the peoples . he gives food in abundance . * He covers his hands with the lightning , and gives it a command that it strike the mark . * The noise of it tells concerning him . The cattle also concerning [the storm ] that comes up .

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