Job 35:1-37:24
Job 35
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- Elihu spake moreover, and said,
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- Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
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- For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
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- I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
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- Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
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- If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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- If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
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- Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
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- By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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- But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
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- Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
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- There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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- Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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- Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
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- But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
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- Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job 36
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- Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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- Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
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- I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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- For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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- Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
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- He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
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- He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
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- And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
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- Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
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- He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
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- If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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- But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
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- But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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- They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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- He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
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- Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
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- But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
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- Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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- Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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- Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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- Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
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- Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
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- Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
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- Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
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- Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
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- Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
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- For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
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- Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
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- Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
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- Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
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- For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
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- With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
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- The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
Job 37
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- At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
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- Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
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- He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
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- After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
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- God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
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- For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
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- He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
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- Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
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- Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
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- By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
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- Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
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- And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
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- He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
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- Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
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- Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
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- Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
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- How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
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- Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
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- Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
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- Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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- And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
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- Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
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- Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
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- Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
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