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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'?Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
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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.
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