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¹ And Elihu continued, and said:² Wait for me a little, and I will show you that there are yet words for God.³ I will bring my knowledge from afar, and I will credit righteousness to my Maker.⁴ For truly my words are not false; the perfect One in knowledge is with you.

⁵ Behold, God is mighty, and He does not despise. He is mighty in strength of heart.⁶ He will not keep the wicked alive, but He gives justice to the afflicted.⁷ He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yea, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.⁸ And if they are bound in chains, or caught in cords of affliction,⁹ then He declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they have behaved proudly.¹⁰ He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands that they turn back from iniquity.¹¹ If they hear and serve, they shall spend their days in good, and their years in pleasures.¹² But if they do not hear, they shall pass away by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.¹³ But the ungodly in heart heap up anger; they cry not when He has bound them.¹⁴ Their soul dies in youth, and their life ends among the sodomites.

¹⁵ He delivers the afflicted by his affliction, and He opens their ears by oppression.¹⁶ And also He lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped under; and the setting of your table would be full of fatness.¹⁷ But you have filled up the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold.¹⁸ For beware wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot turn you aside.¹⁹ If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not be in gold, but with all the strong forces.²⁰ Do not desire the night when people are cut off in their stead.²¹ Beware! Do not turn to 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 appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong?

²⁴ Remember that you magnify His work, of which men have sung;²⁵ every man has seen it; man beholds it from afar.²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.²⁷ For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist,²⁸ which the clouds drip down, and drop upon men plentifully.²⁹ Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, the crashing of His canopy?³⁰ Behold, He spreads His light about Him, and He covers the bottom of the sea.³¹ For He judges the people by them; He gives plenty of food.³² He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;³³ its thunder tells about Him; also the cattle, as to what is coming.