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