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36:1  Elihu also proceeded, and said,
36:2  Bear with me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
36:3  I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4  For truly my words shall not be false: he that is blameless in knowledge is with you.
36:5  Behold, God is mighty, and despises no one: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
36:6  He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives justice to the poor.
36:7  He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings they are on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.
36:8  And if they are bound in fetters, and are held in cords of affliction;
36:9  Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have exceeded.
36:10  He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
36:11  If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
36:12  But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
36:13  But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.
36:14  They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
36:15  He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
36:16  Even so would he have removed you out of the distress into a broad place, where there is no restraint; and that which should be set on your table should be full of richness.
36:17  But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
36:18  Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with one blow: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
36:19  Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
36:20  Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
36:21  Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.
36:22  Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
36:23  Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?
36:24  Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
36:25  Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
36:26  Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
36:27  For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to its vapor:
36:28  Which the clouds do drop and pour upon man abundantly.
36:29  Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the thunder of his tabernacle?
36:30  Behold, he spreads his lightning upon it, and covers the depths of the sea.
36:31  For by them judges he the people; he gives food in abundance.
36:32  With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.
36:33  The thunder thereof declares it, the cattle also, concerning the vapor.