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1 - Elihu also continued, and said,
2 - "Bear with me a little, and I will show you;for I still have something to say on God's behalf.
3 - I will get my knowledge from afar,and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 - For truly my words are not false.One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 - "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone.He is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 - He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked,but gives to the afflicted their right.
7 - He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous,but with kings on the throne,he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
8 - If they are bound in fetters,and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
9 - then he shows them their work,and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10 - He also opens their ears to instruction,and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 - If they listen and serve him,they shall spend their days in prosperity,and their years in pleasures.
12 - But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword;they shall die without knowledge.
13 - "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.They don't cry for help when he binds them.
14 - They die in youth.Their life perishes among the unclean.
15 - He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,and opens their ear in oppression.
16 - Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,into a wide place, where there is no restriction.That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
17 - "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.Judgment and justice take hold of you.
18 - Don't let riches entice you to wrath,neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
19 - Would your wealth sustain you in distress,or all the might of your strength?
20 - Don't desire the night,when people are cut off in their place.
21 - Take heed, don't regard iniquity;for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
22 - Behold, God is exalted in his power.Who is a teacher like him?
23 - Who has prescribed his way for him?Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'
24 - "Remember that you magnify his work,whereof men have sung.
25 - All men have looked on it.Man sees it afar off.
26 - Behold, God is great, and we don't know him.The number of his years is unsearchable.
27 - For he draws up the drops of water,which distill in rain from his vapor,
28 - Which the skies pour downand which drop on man abundantly.
29 - Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds,and the thunderings of his pavilion?
30 - Behold, he spreads his light around him.He covers the bottom of the sea.
31 - For by these he judges the people.He gives food in abundance.
32 - He covers his hands with the lightning,and commands it to strike the mark.
33 - Its noise tells about him,and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.

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