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Elihu went on and said, Job 36:1
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Wait for me a little, and I will show you that there are yet words for God. Job 36:2
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I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker. Job 36:3
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For truly my words are not false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you. Job 36:4
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Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise; He is mighty in strength of heart. Job 36:5
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He will not keep alive one who is wicked, but gives right to the afflicted. Job 36:6
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He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high. Job 36:7
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And if they are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction, Job 36:8
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then He shows them their work, and their sins, that they have behaved themselves proudly. Job 36:9
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He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from iniquity. Job 36:10
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If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures. Job 36:11
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But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. Job 36:12
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But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them. Job 36:13
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Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites. Job 36:14
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He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression. Job 36:15
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And He also would have lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness. Job 36:16
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But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold; Job 36:17
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For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside. Job 36:18
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If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in distress, but with all the forces of strength. Job 36:19
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Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. Job 36:20
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Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction. Job 36:21
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Behold, God is exalted in His power; who teaches like Him? Job 36:22
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Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong? Job 36:23
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Remember that you magnify His work of which men have sung; Job 36:24
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every man has seen it; man may see it afar off. Job 36:25
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Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out. Job 36:26
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For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist, Job 36:27
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which the clouds pour down and drop on man plentifully. Job 36:28
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Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy? Job 36:29
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Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea. Job 36:30
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For by them He judges the people; He gives plenty of food. Job 36:31
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He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark; Job 36:32
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its thunder declares concerning Him, and the cattle, concerning what is coming. Job 36:33