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\c 36
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\p
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\v 1 Elihu continued on and said,
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\q
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\v 2 “Permit me to speak a little longer, and I will show you some things
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\q because I have a little more to say in defense of God.
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\q
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\v 3 I will obtain my knowledge from far off;
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\q I will acknowledge that righteousness belongs to my Maker.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 For indeed, my words will not be false;
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\q someone who is mature in knowledge is with you.
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\q
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\v 5 See, God is mighty, and despises no one;
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\q he is mighty in strength of understanding.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 He does not preserve the life of wicked people
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\q but instead does what is right for those who suffer.
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\q
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\v 7 He does not withdraw his eyes from righteous people
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\q but instead sets them on thrones like kings forever,
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\q and they are lifted up.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 If, however, they are bound in chains,
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\q if they are trapped in cords of suffering,
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\q
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\v 9 then he reveals to them what they have done—
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\q their transgressions and how they have arrogantly behaved.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 He also opens their ears to his instruction,
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\q and he commands them to turn back from iniquity.
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\q
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\v 11 If they listen to him and worship him,
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\q they will spend their days in prosperity,
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\q their years in contentment.
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\q
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\v 12 However, if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword;
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\q they will die because they have no knowledge.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 Those who are godless in heart store up their anger;
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\q they do not cry out for help even when God ties them up.
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\q
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\v 14 They die in their youth;
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\q their lives end among the cultic prostitutes.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 God rescues afflicted people by means of their afflictions;
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\q he opens their ears by means of their oppression.
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\q
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\v 16 Indeed, he would like to draw you out of distress
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\q into a broad place where there is no hardship
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\q and where your table would be set with food full of fatness.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 17 But you are full of judgment on wicked people;
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\q judgment and justice have laid hold of you.
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\b
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\q
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\v 18 Do not let wealth attract you to deception;
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\q do not let the great size of a bribe turn you aside from justice.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 19 Can your wealth benefit you, so that you will not be in distress,
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\q or can all the force of your strength help you?
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\q
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\v 20 Do not desire the night, to commit sin against others,
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\q when peoples are cut off in their place.
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\q
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\v 21 Be careful that you do not turn to sin
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\q because you are being tested by suffering so that you will stay away from sinning.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 22 See, God is exalted in his power;
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\q who is a teacher like him?
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\q
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\v 23 Who has ever instructed him about his way?
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\q Who can ever say to him, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?'
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\b
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\q
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\v 24 Remember to praise his deeds,
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\q of which people have sung.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 25 All people have looked on those deeds,
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\q but they see those deeds only from far away.
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\q
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\v 26 See, God is great, but we do not understand him well;
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\q the number of his years is incalculable.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 27 For he draws up the drops of water
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\q that distill as rain from his vapor,
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\q
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\v 28 which the clouds pour down
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\q and drop in abundance on mankind.
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\q
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\v 29 Indeed, can anyone understand the extensive spread of the clouds
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\q and the thunder from his tent?
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\s5
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\q
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\v 30 See, he spreads his lightning around himself;
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\q he covers up the sea with darkness.
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\q
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\v 31 In this way he feeds the peoples
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\q and gives food in abundance.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 32 He covers his hands over the lightning bolts
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\q until he commands them to hit their targets.
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\q
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\v 33 Their noise tells people of the coming storm;
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\q the cattle also know of its approach.
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