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Job 36:14-29 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

14. They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male shrine prostitutes.

15. He delivers the afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.

16. And what’s more, he allured you out of distress into a broad place, where in place of it was no constraint; and what was set on your table is full of fatness.

17. But you are obsessed with the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.

18. Yes, it is wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let the ransom’s greatness turn you aside.

19. Will your cry for help sustain you without distress, or all the efforts of your strength?

20. You must not long for the night, to cut off people in their place.

21. Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

22. “Look, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

23. Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, ‘You have done wrong’?

24. Remember that you should extol his work, of which people have sung.

25. All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar.

26. “Look, God is exalted, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.

27. Indeed, he draws up the drops of water; he distills the rain into its mist,

28. which the clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.

29. “Moreover, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place?

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