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36:1  Elihu continued 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 bring my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4  For truly my words will not be false; He who is perfect 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 does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.
36:7  He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; but they are on the throne with kings, for He establishes them forever, and they are exalted.
36:8  If they are bound in chains and held in cords of affliction,
36:9  then He shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded;
36:10  and He opens their ear to discipline, and commands that they turn from iniquity.
36:11  If they obey and serve Him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.
36:12  But if they do not obey, they will perish by the sword, and they will die without knowledge.
36:13  “But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath; they do not cry out when He binds them.
36:14  They die in youth, and their life ends among the unclean.
36:15  He delivers the poor in their affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
36:16  “Even so He would have removed you out of distress into a broad place where there is no restraint; and that which was set on your table would be full of richness.
36:17  But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.
36:18  Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with a blow; even a great ransom cannot deliver you.
36:19  Will He esteem your riches? No, not gold, nor all the force of your strength.
36:20  Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
36:21  Take heed! Do not turn to iniquity, for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
36:22  “Behold, God is exalted in His power; who teaches like Him?
36:23  Who has prescribed His way for Him? Or who can say, ‘You have worked iniquity’?
36:24  Remember to magnify His work, which men behold.
36:25  Every man may see it; man may behold it from afar.
36:26  Look, God is great, and we do not know Him, nor can the number of His years be searched out.
36:27  “For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain according to its mist,
36:28  which the clouds drop down, and drip upon man abundantly.
36:29  Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, or the noise of His tent?
36:30  See, He spreads His light upon it and covers the bottom of the sea.
36:31  For by these He judges the people; He gives food in abundance.
36:32  With clouds He covers the light, and commands it to strike the mark.
36:33  Its thunder declares it, the cattle also, concerning the rising storm.