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  • 1. ¶ THEN Elihu added, and said,
  • 2. Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for there are yet words to speak 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 deceitful, and my knowledge is blameless with you.
  • 5. ¶ Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise him who is pure as milk.
  • 6. He does not preserve the life of the wicked; but gives justice to the poor.
  • 7. He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; he sets kings on the throne; yea, they are exalted for ever.
  • 8. And if they be bound in chains, then they go down through destruction to poverty.
  • 9. Then he shows them their works, and their transgression because they have exceeded their power.
  • 10. He opens also their ears to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
  • 11. If they obey and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.
  • 12. But if they do not obey, they shall perish by destruction, and they shall perish without knowledge.
  • 13. But the hypocrites in heart shall be consumed, they shall not cry for help; yet they shall cry angrily when he binds them.
  • 14. They shall die in youth, and their life is snatched by famine.
  • 15. ¶ But the meek shall be delivered through his meekness, and he opens their way in time of oppression.
  • 16. Even so he shall deliver you from the mouth of the mocker, and give you rest instead of distress; and he shall prepare a table with rich food.
  • 17. But he shall judge the wicked to the limit: judgment and justice shall take hold on them.
  • 18. He will not threaten you with a raging anger, nor will he cause you to be in need of a great ransom.
  • 19. He shall join you, that he may deliver you; you shall not be distressed by any of those who are mighty in power.
  • 20. He shall deliver you from those who drive you away in the night, and give peoples for your sake, and the nations for your life.
  • 21. Take heed, that you may not return to iniquity: because for this you were tried by poverty.
  • 22. Behold, God is mighty in power: who can teach like him?
  • 23. Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
  • 24. ¶ Remember that his works are great, and all men have praised him.
  • 25. All the peoples have seen it, and beheld it from afar.
  • 26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, the number of his years is unsearchable.
  • 27. For if we should number the pillars of the heaven, and bind the drops of rain by themselves, which the skies do drop in their season;
  • 28. And which the clouds pour down upon men, and cause them to be exceedingly glad;
  • 29. Who can understand these things, or the spreading of the clouds out of the greatness of his tabernacle?
  • 30. Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
  • 31. For by these he judges the people; and he gives food to many.
  • 32. He covers the light with the clouds, and then it shines upon them again that they may greet it.
  • 33. He shows his possessions to his friends, and to the wicked also.