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35 ¶ Elihu proceeded in his reasoning and said,
2 Dost thou think this to be right, when thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?
3 For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?
4 I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto the heavens and see; and behold the heavens which are higher than thou.
6 If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or if thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.
9 ¶ By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.
10 But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.
14 ¶ For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in him.
15 But now, because he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;
16 therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.
36 ¶ And Elihu added and said,
2 Wait for me a little, and I will teach thee; for I yet speak on God’s behalf.
3 I will take my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words are not lies; for I share perfect knowledge with thee.
5 ¶ Behold, God is mighty and does not despise; he is mighty in virtue of heart.
6 He shall not give life to the wicked; but to the poor he shall give their right.
7 He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever, and they shall be exalted.
8 And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction,
9 then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed.
10 He opens their ear to instruction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
11 If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.
12 But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.
14 Their soul shall die in youth, and their life is among the male pagan cult prostitutes.
15 ¶ He shall deliver the poor from his poverty, and in affliction shall open their ears.
16 Likewise, he would have removed thee out of the mouth of anguish into a broad place where there is no distress and should have set thy table full of fatness.
17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, against the judgment and the justice that sustain everything.
18 Therefore it is to be feared that he take thee away with a stroke, which cannot be avoided even with a great ransom.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Do not desire the night, when he cuts people off in their place.
21 Take heed, do not regard iniquity, to choose it rather than poverty.
22 Behold, God is exalted by his power; what teacher is like him?
23 Who has prescribed his way unto him? Or who shall say unto him, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24 ¶ Remember to magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he detains the drops of water; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour,
28 which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29 Shall you understand the spreadings of the clouds or the noise of his tent?
30 Behold, he spreads his light upon it and covers the roots of the sea.
31 For by them he judges the peoples; he gives food to the multitude.
32 With the clouds he covers the light and commands them to come against the light.
33 The one gives news of the other; the one acquires wrath against the one that comes.
37 ¶ At this also my heart trembles and is moved out of its place.
2 Hear attentively his terrible voice and the word that goes out of his mouth.
3 He shall place it straight under the whole of the heavens, and his light shall extend unto the ends of the earth.
4 After it shall the sound roar; his valiant voice shall thunder; and he will not stay them even when his voice is heard.
5 God shall thunder marvelously with his voice; he does great things, which we cannot comprehend.
6 ¶ For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; rain after rain, and rain after rain in his strength.
7 He seals up the hand of every man that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beast shall go into its lair and inhabit its dwelling.
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind and cold out of the north wind.
10 By the breath of God ice is given; and the broad waters are constrained.
11 In addition to this, with clarity he wearies the thick clouds; and he scatters them with his light.
12 And they are turned round about by his counsels; that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 On some occasions for correction, on others for his land, on others for mercy he causes them to appear.
14 ¶ Hearken unto this, Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Dost thou know when God disposed them and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of the one who is perfect in knowledge?
17 How thy garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong and as a molten looking glass?
19 Teach us what we should say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
20 Shall it be told him when I speak? When someone is swallowed up shall it be told him?
21 ¶ Also, sometimes the clear light which is in the heavens is not seen, but the wind passes and cleanses them.
22 Fair weather comes out of the north; with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out; he is excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of righteousness he will not afflict.
24 Men, therefore, shall fear him; all the crafty of heart shall not see him.
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