| 1: Elihu also proceeded, and said, |
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| 2: Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to
speak 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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| 4: For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee. |
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| 5: Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in
strength and wisdom. |
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| 6: He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to
the poor. |
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| 7: He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings
are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they
are exalted. |
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| 8: And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of
affliction; |
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| 9: Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that
they have exceeded. |
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| 10: He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that
they return from iniquity. |
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| 11: If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in
prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
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| 12: But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and
they shall die without knowledge. |
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| 13: But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when
he bindeth them. |
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| 14: They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
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| 15: He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their
ears in oppression. |
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| 16: Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a
broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set
on thy table should be full of fatness. |
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| 17: But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment
and justice take hold on thee. |
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| 18: Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with
his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. |
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| 19: Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces
of strength. |
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| 20: Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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| 21: Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen
rather than affliction. |
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| 22: Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
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| 23: Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast
wrought iniquity? |
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| 24: Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
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| 25: Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
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| 26: Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the
number of his years be searched out. |
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| 27: For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain
according to the vapour thereof: |
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| 28: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
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| 29: Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the
noise of his tabernacle? |
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| 30: Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the
bottom of the sea. |
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| 31: For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in
abundance. |
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| 32: With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to
shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. |
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| 33: The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also
concerning the vapour. |
