Job 36: (YLT)
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1) And Elihu addeth and saith: --
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2) Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.
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3) I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
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4) For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.
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5) Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
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6) He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;
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7) He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
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8) And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
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9) Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
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10) And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.
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11) If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
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12) And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
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13) And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
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14) Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
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15) He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
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16) And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
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17) And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
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18) Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
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19) Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
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20) Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
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21) Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.
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22) Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher?
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23) Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'
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24) Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
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25) All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
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26) Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.
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27) When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
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28) Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
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29) Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
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30) Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,
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31) For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
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32) By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
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33) He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.
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