Job:36

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* Elihu also proceeded , and said , * Allow me a little , and I will show you ; 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 : One who is perfect in knowledge is with you . * Look , God is mighty , and does not despise any : He is mighty in strength of understanding . * He does not preserve the life of the wicked , But gives to the afflicted [their ] right . * He doesn 't withdraw his eyes from the righteous : But with kings on the throne He sets them forever , and they are exalted . * And if they are bound in fetters , And are taken in the cords of afflictions ; * Then he shows them their work , And their transgressions , that they have behaved themselves proudly . * He opens also their ear to instruction , And commands that they return from iniquity . * If they listen and serve [him ], They will spend their days in prosperity , And their years in pleasures . * But if they don 't listen , they will perish by the sword , And they will die without knowledge . * But those who are godless in heart lay up anger : They don 't cry for help when he binds them . * They die in youth , And their life [perishes ] among the homosexuals . * He delivers the afflicted by their affliction , And opens their ear in oppression . * Yes , he would have allured you out of distress Into a broad place , where there is no straitness ; And that which is set on your table would be full of fatness . * But you are full of the judgment of the wicked : Judgment and justice take hold [on you ]. * For beware that wrath doesn 't stir you up against chastisements ; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside . * Will your cry avail , [that you are ] not in distress , Or all the forces of [your ] strength ? * Do not desire the night , When peoples are cut off in their place . * Take heed , do not regard iniquity : For this you have chosen rather than affliction . * Look , God does loftily in his power : Who is a teacher like him ? * Who has enjoined him his way ? Or who can say , You have wrought unrighteousness ? * Remember that you magnify his work , Of which men have sung . * All of man have looked on it ; Common man watches it far off . * Look , God is great , and we don 't know him ; The number of his years is unsearchable . * For he draws up the drops of water , Which distill in rain from his vapor , * Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly . * Yes , can any understand the spreadings of the clouds , The thunderings of his pavilion ? * Look , 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 charge that it strikes the mark . * The noise of it tells concerning him , The cattle also [tell ] concerning [the storm ] that comes up .

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