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Job 36

¹Elihu also continued, and said,

²"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; For I still have something to say on God`s behalf.

³I will get my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

⁴For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

⁵"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn`t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

⁶He doesn`t preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.

⁷He doesn`t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

⁸If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,

⁹Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

¹⁰He also opens their ears to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.

¹¹If they listen and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

¹²But if they don`t listen, they shall perish by the sword; They shall die without knowledge.

¹³"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don`t cry for help when he binds them.

¹⁴They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

¹⁵He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.

¹⁶Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, Into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

¹⁷"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

¹⁸Don`t let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

¹⁹Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?

²⁰Don`t desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.

²¹Take heed, don`t regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.

²²Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

²³Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, `You have committed unrighteousness?`

²⁴"Remember that you magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

²⁵All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

²⁶Behold, God is great, and we don`t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

²⁷For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,

²⁸Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

²⁹Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, And the thunderings of his pavilion?

³⁰Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

³¹For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

³²He covers his hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

³³The noise of it tells about him, And the cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.

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Job

Chapter 36

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