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| 36:1 |
Elihu continued and said:
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| 36:2 |
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
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| 36:3 |
I will bring my knowledge from far away, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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| 36:4 |
For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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| 36:5 |
"Surely God is mighty and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
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| 36:6 |
He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
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| 36:7 |
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
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| 36:8 |
And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
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| 36:9 |
then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
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| 36:10 |
He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
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| 36:11 |
If they listen, and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
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| 36:12 |
But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
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| 36:13 |
"The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
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| 36:14 |
They die in their youth, and their life ends in shame.
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| 36:15 |
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
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| 36:16 |
He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
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| 36:17 |
"But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
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| 36:18 |
Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing, and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
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| 36:19 |
Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or will all the force of your strength?
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| 36:20 |
Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
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| 36:21 |
Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.
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| 36:22 |
See, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
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| 36:23 |
Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?
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| 36:24 |
"Remember to extol his work, of which mortals have sung.
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| 36:25 |
All people have looked on it; everyone watches it from far away.
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| 36:26 |
Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.
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| 36:27 |
For he draws up the drops of water; he distills his mist in rain,
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| 36:28 |
which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly.
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| 36:29 |
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
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| 36:30 |
See, he scatters his lightning around him and covers the roots of the sea.
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| 36:31 |
For by these he governs peoples; he gives food in abundance.
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| 36:32 |
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
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| 36:33 |
Its crashing tells about him; he is jealous with anger against iniquity.
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