Job36

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(Job 36:1) Elihu also proceeded, and said,
(Job 36:2) Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that {I have} yet to speak on God's behalf.
(Job 36:3) I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
(Job 36:4) For truly my words {shall} not {be} false: he that is perfect in knowledge {is} with thee.
(Job 36:5) Behold, God {is} mighty, and despiseth not {any: he is} mighty in strength {and} wisdom.
(Job 36:6) He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
(Job 36:7) He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings {are} {they} on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
(Job 36:8) And if {they be} bound in fetters, {and} be holden in cords of affliction;
(Job 36:9) Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
(Job 36:10) He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
(Job 36:11) If they obey and serve {him}, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
(Job 36:12) But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
(Job 36:13) But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
(Job 36:14) They die in youth, and their life {is} among the unclean.
(Job 36:15) He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
(Job 36:16) Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait {into} a broad place, where {there is} no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table {should be} full of fatness.
(Job 36:17) But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold {on thee}.
(Job 36:18) Because {there is} wrath, {beware} lest he take thee away with {his} stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
(Job 36:19) Will he esteem thy riches? {no}, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
(Job 36:20) Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
(Job 36:21) Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
(Job 36:22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
(Job 36:23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
(Job 36:24) Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
(Job 36:25) Every man may see it; man may behold {it} afar off.
(Job 36:26) Behold, God {is} great, and we know {him} not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
(Job 36:27) For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
(Job 36:28) Which the clouds do drop {and} distil upon man abundantly.
(Job 36:29) Also can {any} understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
(Job 36:30) Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
(Job 36:31) For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
(Job 36:32) With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it {not to shine} by {the cloud} that cometh betwixt.
(Job 36:33) The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
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