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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
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