Job 36:3-19
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3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
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6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
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7 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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8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
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9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
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10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
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11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
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13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
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16 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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17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
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18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.