Job 36
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Elihu Describes God’s Power

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

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