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Job - ch 36 v 1 - 20
- Elihu also continued, and said,
- "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.
- I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
- He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
- If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
- then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
- He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
- If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
- "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.
- They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
- He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
- 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.
- "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
- Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
- Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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