Job:36

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* Elihu also proceeded , and said , * Suffer me a little , and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God 's behalf . * I will fetch my knowledge from far , and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker . * For truly my words shall not be false : he that is perfect in knowledge is with you . * Behold , God is mighty , and despises not any : he is mighty in strength and wisdom . * He perserves not the life of the wicked : but gives right to the poor . * He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous : but with kings are they on the throne ; yea , he does establish them for ever , and they are exalted . * And if they be bound in fetters , and be held in cords of affliction ; * Then he shows them their work , and their transgressions that they have exceeded . * He opens also their ear to discipline , and commands that they return from iniquity . * If they obey and serve him , they shall spend their days in prosperity , and their years in pleasures . * But if they obey not , they shall perish by the sword , and they shall die without knowledge . * But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath : they cry not when he binds them . * They die in youth , and their life is among the unclean . * He delivers the poor in his affliction , and opens their ears in oppression . * Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place , where there is no strictness ; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness . * But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked : judgment and justice take hold on you . * Because there is wrath , beware lest he take you away with his stroke : then a great ransom cannot deliver you . * Will he esteem your riches ? no , not gold , nor all the forces of strength . * Desire not the night , when people are cut off in their place . * Take heed , regard not iniquity : for this have you chosen rather than affliction . * Behold , God exalts by his power : who teaches like him ? * Who has commanded with authority him his way ? or who can say , You have wrought iniquity ? * Remember that you magnify his work , which men behold . * Every man may see it ; man may behold it far off . * Behold , God is great , and we know him not , neither can the number of his years be searched out . * For he makes small the drops of water : they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof : * Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly . * Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds , or the noise of his tabernacle ? * Behold , he spreads his light upon it , and covers the bottom of the sea . * For by them judges he the people ; he gives food in abundance . * With clouds he covers the light ; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between . * The noise thereof shows concerning it , the cattle also concerning the vapour .

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