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Job 36 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:1 - Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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Suffer me a little, and I will show thee;
For I have yet somewhat to say 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 are not false:
One 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 of understanding.
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He preserveth not the life of the wicked,
But giveth to the afflicted their right.
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He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:
But with kings upon the throne
He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
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And if they be bound in fetters,
And be taken in the cords of affliction;
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Then he showeth them their work,
And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
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He openeth also their ear to instruction,
And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
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If they hearken and serve him,
They shall spend their days in prosperity,
And their years in pleasures.
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But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword,
And they shall die without knowledge.
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But they that are godless in heart lay up anger:
They cry not for help when he bindeth them.
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They die in youth,
And their life perisheth among the unclean.
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He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction,
And openeth their ear in oppression.
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Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress
Into a broad place, where there is no straitness;
And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
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But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked:
Judgment and justice take hold on thee.
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For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements;
Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
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Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress,
Or all the forces of thy strength?
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Desire not the night,
When peoples 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 doeth loftily in his power:
Who is a teacher like unto him?
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Who hath enjoined him his way?
Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
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Remember that thou magnify his work,
Whereof men have sung.
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All men have looked thereon;
Man beholdeth it afar off.
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Behold, God is great, and we know him not;
The number of his years is unsearchable.
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For he draweth up the drops of water,
Which distil in rain from his vapor,
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Which the skies pour down
And drop upon man abundantly.
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Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,
The thunderings of his pavilion?
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Behold, he spreadeth his light around him;
And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
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For by these he judgeth the peoples;
He giveth food in abundance.
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He covereth his hands with the lightning,
And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
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The noise thereof telleth concerning him,
The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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