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Job 36:1 (WEB)
Elihu also continued, and said,

Job 36:2 (WEB)
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; For I still have something to say on God's behalf.

Job 36:3 (WEB)
I will get my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 36:4 (WEB)
For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Job 36:5 (WEB)
"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Job 36:6 (WEB)
He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.

Job 36:7 (WEB)
He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Job 36:8 (WEB)
If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Job 36:9 (WEB)
Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

Job 36:10 (WEB)
He also opens their ears to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.

Job 36:11 (WEB)
If they listen and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

Job 36:12 (WEB)
But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; They shall die without knowledge.

Job 36:13 (WEB)
"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

Job 36:14 (WEB)
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Job 36:15 (WEB)
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.

Job 36:16 (WEB)
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, Into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

Job 36:17 (WEB)
"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Job 36:18 (WEB)
Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Job 36:19 (WEB)
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, Or all the might of your strength?

Job 36:20 (WEB)
Don't desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.

Job 36:21 (WEB)
Take heed, don't regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.

Job 36:22 (WEB)
Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Job 36:23 (WEB)
Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

Job 36:24 (WEB)
"Remember that you magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

Job 36:25 (WEB)
All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

Job 36:26 (WEB)
Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Job 36:27 (WEB)
For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,

Job 36:28 (WEB)
Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

Job 36:29 (WEB)
Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, And the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 36:30 (WEB)
Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

Job 36:31 (WEB)
For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

Job 36:32 (WEB)
He covers his hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

Job 36:33 (WEB)
The noise of it tells about him, And the cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.

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