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36:1  And Elihu proceeded and said,
36:2  Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.
36:3  I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
36:4  For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
36:5  Lo, �God is mighty, but despiseth not any; mighty in strength of understanding:
36:6  He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.
36:7  He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.
36:8  And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
36:9  Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
36:10  And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
36:11  If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
36:12  But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
36:13  But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:
36:14  Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
36:15  But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression.
36:16  Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness.
36:17  But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
36:18  Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
36:19  Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
36:20  Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
36:21  Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
36:22  Lo, �God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
36:23  Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
36:24  Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
36:25  All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off.
36:26  Lo, �God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
36:27  For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
36:28  Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
36:29  But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the crashing of his pavilion?
36:30  Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
36:31  For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
36:32  His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.
36:33  His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.