Elihu also proceeded, and said:
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Suffer me a little, and I will tell thee; For there are yet words on God’s behalf.
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I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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For truly my words are not false; One that is upright in mind is with thee.
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Behold, God is mighty, yet He despiseth not any; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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He preserveth not the life of the wicked; But giveth to the poor their right.
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He withdraweth not His eyes from the righteous; But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
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And if they be bound in fetters, And be holden in cords of affliction;
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Then He declareth unto them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
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He openeth also their ear to discipline, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
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If they hearken and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
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But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
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But they that are godless in heart lay up anger; They cry not for help when He bindeth them.
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Their soul perisheth in youth, And their life as that of the depraved.
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He delivereth the afflicted by His affliction, And openeth their ear by tribulation.
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Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;
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And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold on them.
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For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
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Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, Or all the forces of thy strength?
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Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
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Take heed, regard not iniquity; For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
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Behold, God doeth loftily in His power; Who is a teacher like Him?
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Who hath enjoined Him His way? Or who hath said: ‘Thou hast wrought unrighteousness’?
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Remember that thou magnify His work, Whereof men have sung.
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All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.
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Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; The number of His years is unsearchable.
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For He draweth away the drops of water, Which distil rain from His vapour;
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Which the skies pour down And drop upon the multitudes of men.
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Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The crashings of His pavilion?
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Behold, He spreadeth His light upon it; And He covereth the depths of the sea.
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For by these He judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
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He covereth His hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
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The noise thereof telleth concerning it, The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.
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