Job:36

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* And Elihu added and said , * Wait for me a little , and I will teach thee ; for I yet speak on God 's behalf . * I will take my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker . * For truly my words [are ] not lies ; [for I share ] perfect knowledge with thee . * Behold , God [is ] mighty and does not despise ; [he is ] mighty in virtue of heart . * He shall not give life to the wicked ; but to the poor he shall give their right . * He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous ; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever , and they shall be exalted . * And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction , * then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed . * He opens their ear to instruction and commands that they turn from iniquity . * If they hearken and serve [him ], they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight . * But if they do not hearken , they shall perish by the sword , and they shall die without knowledge . * But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more ; they shall not cry out when he binds them . * Their soul shall die in youth , and their life [is ] among the male [pagan cult ] prostitutes . * He shall deliver the poor from his poverty , and in affliction shall open their ears . * Likewise , he would have removed thee out of the mouth of anguish [into ] a broad place where [there is ] no distress and should have set thy table full of fatness . * But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked , against the judgment and the justice that sustain [everything ]. * Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with [a ] stroke , which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom . * Will he esteem thy riches ? [No ], not gold , nor all the forces of strength . * Do not desire the night , when he cuts people off in their place . * Take heed , do not regard iniquity , to chose it rather than poverty . * Behold , God is exalted by his power ; what teacher is like him ? * Who has prescribed his way unto him ? Or who shall say unto him , Thou hast wrought iniquity ? * Remember to magnify his work , which men behold . * Every man may see it ; man may behold [it ] afar off . * Behold , God [is ] great , and we know [him ] not , neither can the number of his years be searched out . * For he detains the drops of water ; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour , * which the clouds do drop [and ] distil upon man abundantly . * Shall you understand the spreadings of the clouds [or ] the noise of his tent ? * Behold , he spreads his light upon it and covers the roots of the sea . * For by them he judges the peoples ; he gives food to the multitude . * With the clouds he covers the light and commands them [to come ] against [the light ]. * [The one ] gives news of the other ; [the one ] acquires wrath against the one that comes .:

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