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36:1  Elihu continued and said:
36:2  ‘Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf.
36:3  I will bring my knowledge from far away, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4  For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
36:5  ‘Surely God is mighty and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
36:6  He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
36:7  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
36:8  And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
36:9  then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
36:10  He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
36:11  If they listen, and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
36:12  But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
36:13  ‘The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
36:14  They die in their youth, and their life ends in shame.
36:15  He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
36:16  He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
36:17  ‘But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked; judgement and justice seize you.
36:18  Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing, and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
36:19  Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or will all the force of your strength?
36:20  Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
36:21  Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.
36:22  See, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
36:23  Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, “You have done wrong”?
36:24  ‘Remember to extol his work, of which mortals have sung.
36:25  All people have looked on it; everyone watches it from far away.
36:26  Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.
36:27  For he draws up the drops of water; he distils his mist in rain,
36:28  which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly.
36:29  Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
36:30  See, he scatters his lightning around him and covers the roots of the sea.
36:31  For by these he governs peoples; he gives food in abundance.
36:32  He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
36:33  Its crashing tells about him; he is jealous with anger against iniquity.