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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_36_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_36_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73b3074 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_36_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Job. +Chapter 36. +And Elihu went on to say, +Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God. +I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker. +For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you. +Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner. +His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right; +Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever. +And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble, +Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride. +Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil. +If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure. +But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge. +Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners. +They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods. +He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble. +... +... +... +... +... +Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow. +Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him? +Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong? +See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs. +All people are looking on it; man sees it from far. +Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out. +For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, +Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples. +And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent? +See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. +For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure. +He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark. +The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath. |