- 1. Elihu also proceeded, and said,
- 2. Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.
- 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- 4. For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
- 5. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- 6. He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted [their] right.
- 7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
- 8. And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
- 9. Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
- 10. He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- 11. If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
- 12. But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
- 13. But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.
- 14. They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean.
- 15. He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
- 16. 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.
- 17. But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
- 18. For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
- 19. Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?
- 20. Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
- 21. Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- 22. Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?
- 23. Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
- 24. Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.
- 25. All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
- 26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
- 27. For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
- 28. Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
- 29. Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
- 30. Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
- 31. For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
- 32. He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
- 33. The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that cometh up.
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