Verse 5
Job 36:5
World English Bible, British Edition
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“Behold, God (Elohim) is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.
He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֶן אֵ֣ל כַּ֭בִּיר וְ/לֹ֣א יִמְאָ֑ס כַּ֝בִּ֗יר כֹּ֣חַֽ לֵֽב
English Translation
Behold, God is great and will not despise great strength of heart.
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Chapter 36 Context
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Elihu also continued, and said,
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“Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
for I still have something to say on God (Elohim)’s beh...
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I will get my knowledge from afar,
and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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For truly my words are not false.
One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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“Behold, God (Elohim) is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.
He is mighty in strength of understandi...
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He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,
but gives justice to the afflicted.
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He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
but with kings on the throne,
he sets them forever,...
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If they are bound in fetters,
and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
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then he shows them their work,
and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
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He also opens their ears to instruction,
and commands that they return from iniquity.
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If they listen and serve him,
they will spend their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasures...
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But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;
they will die without knowledge.
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“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.
They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
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They die in youth.
Their life perishes amongst the unclean.
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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,
and opens their ear in oppression.
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Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,
into a wide place, where there is no restriction.
Th...
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“But you are full of the judgement of the wicked.
Judgement and justice take hold of you.
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Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,
neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
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Would your wealth sustain you in distress,
or all the might of your strength?
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Don’t desire the night,
when people are cut off in their place.
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Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;
for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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Behold, God (Elohim) is exalted in his power.
Who is a teacher like him?
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Who has prescribed his way for him?
Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
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“Remember that you magnify his work,
about which men have sung.
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All men have looked on it.
Man sees it afar off.
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Behold, God (Elohim) is great, and we don’t know him.
The number of his years is unsearchable.
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For he draws up the drops of water,
which distill in rain from his vapour,
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which the skies pour down
and which drop on man abundantly.
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Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds
and the thunderings of his pavilion?
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Behold, he spreads his light around him.
He covers the bottom of the sea.
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For by these he judges the people.
He gives food in abundance.
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He covers his hands with the lightning,
and commands it to strike the mark.
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Its noise tells about him,
and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.
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