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| 36:1 |
And Elihu addeth and saith: --
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| 36:2 |
Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.
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| 36:3 |
I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
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| 36:4 |
For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.
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| 36:5 |
Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
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| 36:6 |
He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;
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| 36:7 |
He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
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| 36:8 |
And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
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| 36:9 |
Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
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| 36:10 |
And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.
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| 36:11 |
If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
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| 36:12 |
And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
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| 36:13 |
And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
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| 36:14 |
Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
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| 36:15 |
He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
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| 36:16 |
And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
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| 36:17 |
And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
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| 36:18 |
Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
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| 36:19 |
Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
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| 36:20 |
Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
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| 36:21 |
Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.
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| 36:22 |
Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher?
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| 36:23 |
Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'
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| 36:24 |
Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
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| 36:25 |
All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
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| 36:26 |
Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.
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| 36:27 |
When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
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| 36:28 |
Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
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| 36:29 |
Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
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| 36:30 |
Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,
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| 36:31 |
For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
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| 36:32 |
By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
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| 36:33 |
He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.
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