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36:1  And Elihu continued, and said:
36:2  “Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
36:3  I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4  For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
36:5  “Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
36:6  He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
36:7  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
36:8  And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
36:9  then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
36:10  He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
36:11  If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
36:12  But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
36:13  “The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
36:14  They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
36:15  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
36:16  He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
36:17  “But you are full of the judgement on the wicked; judgement and justice seize you.
36:18  Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
36:19  Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
36:20  Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
36:21  Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
36:22  Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
36:23  Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?
36:24  “Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
36:25  All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
36:26  Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
36:27  For he draws up the drops of water; they distil his mist in rain,
36:28  which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.
36:29  Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
36:30  Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
36:31  For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
36:32  He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
36:33  Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.