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  • 1. And Elihu proceeded and said,
  • 2. Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God.
  • 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.
  • 4. For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
  • 5. Lo, �God is mighty, but despiseth not [any]; mighty in strength of understanding:
  • 6. He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.
  • 7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted.
  • 8. And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
  • 9. Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.
  • 10. And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
  • 11. If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
  • 12. But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
  • 13. But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:
  • 14. Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
  • 15. But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in [their] oppression.
  • 16. Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.
  • 17. But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
  • 18. Because there is wrath, [beware] lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
  • 19. Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
  • 20. Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
  • 21. Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
  • 22. Lo, �God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
  • 23. Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
  • 24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
  • 25. All men look at it; man beholdeth [it] afar off.
  • 26. Lo, �God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
  • 27. For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
  • 28. Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.
  • 29. But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
  • 30. Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
  • 31. For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
  • 32. [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.
  • 33. His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming.