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# Chapter 36
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1 Elihu also proceeded and said:
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2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you
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That there are yet words to speak on God’s behalf.
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3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar;
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I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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4 For truly my words are not false;
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One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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5 “Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one;
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He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked,
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But gives justice to the oppressed.
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7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;
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But they are on the throne with kings,
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For He has seated them forever,
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And they are exalted.
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8 And if they are bound in fetters,
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Held in the cords of affliction,
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9 Then He tells them their work and their transgressions—
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That they have acted defiantly.
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10 He also opens their ear to instruction,
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And commands that they turn from iniquity.
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11 If they obey and serve Him,
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They shall spend their days in prosperity,
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And their years in pleasures.
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12 But if they do not obey,
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They shall perish by the sword,
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And they shall die without knowledge.
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13 “But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath;
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They do not cry for help when He binds them.
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14 They die in youth,
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And their life ends among the perverted persons.
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15 He delivers the poor in their affliction,
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And opens their ears in oppression.
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16 “Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress,
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Into a broad place where there is no restraint;
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And what is set on your table would be full of richness.
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17 But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked;
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Judgment and justice take hold of you.
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18 Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow;
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For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.
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19 Will your riches,
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Or all the mighty forces,
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Keep you from distress?
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20 Do not desire the night,
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When people are cut off in their place.
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21 Take heed, do not turn to iniquity,
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For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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22 “Behold, God is exalted by His power;
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Who teaches like Him?
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23 Who has assigned Him His way,
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Or who has said, ‘You have done wrong’?
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24 “Remember to magnify His work,
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Of which men have sung.
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25 Everyone has seen it;
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Man looks on it from afar.
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26 “Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him;
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Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
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27 For He draws up drops of water,
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Which distill as rain from the mist,
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28 Which the clouds drop down
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And pour abundantly on man.
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29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds,
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The thunder from His canopy?
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30 Look, He scatters His light upon it,
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And covers the depths of the sea.
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31 For by these He judges the peoples;
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He gives food in abundance.
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32 He covers His hands with lightning,
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And commands it to strike.
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33 His thunder declares it,
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The cattle also, concerning the rising storm. |