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