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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 Gods 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.