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36:1  And Elihu added and said,
36:2  Wait for me a little, and I will teach thee; for I yet speak on God’s behalf.
36:3  I will take my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4  For truly my words are not lies; for I share perfect knowledge with thee.
36:5  Behold, God is mighty and does not despise; he is mighty in virtue of heart.
36:6  He shall not give life to the wicked; but to the poor he shall give their right.
36:7  He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever, and they shall be exalted.
36:8  And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction,
36:9  then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed.
36:10  He opens their ear to instruction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
36:11  If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.
36:12  But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
36:13  But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.
36:14  Their soul shall die in youth, and their life is among the male pagan cult prostitutes.
36:15  He shall deliver the poor from his poverty, and in affliction shall open their ears.
36:16  Likewise, he would have removed thee out of the mouth of anguish into a broad place where there is no distress and should have set thy table full of fatness.
36:17  But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, against the judgment and the justice that sustain everything.
36:18  Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with a stroke, which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom.
36:19  Will he esteem thy riches? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
36:20  Do not desire the night, when he cuts people off in their place.
36:21  Take heed, do not regard iniquity, to choose it rather than poverty.
36:22  Behold, God is exalted by his power; what teacher is like him?
36:23  Who has prescribed his way unto him? Or who shall say unto him, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
36:24  Remember to 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 detains the drops of water; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour,
36:28  which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
36:29  Shall you understand the spreadings of the clouds or the noise of his tent?
36:30  Behold, he spreads his light upon it and covers the roots of the sea.
36:31  For by them he judges the peoples; he gives food to the multitude.
36:32  With the clouds he covers the light and commands them to come against the light.
36:33  The one gives news of the other; the one acquires wrath against the one that comes.