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¹ Elihu also proceeded, and said,² Allow me a little, and I will show you; For I have yet somewhat to say 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 false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with you.

⁵ Look, God is mighty, and does not despise any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.⁶ He does not 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 And 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 opens also their ear 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, And they shall die without knowledge.¹³ But those that are godless in heart lay up anger: They don't cry for help when he binds them.¹⁴ They die in youth, And their life [perishes] among the homosexuals.

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 broad place, where there is no straitness; And 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 [on you].¹⁸ For beware that wrath doesn't stir you up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.¹⁹ Will your cry avail, [that you are] not in distress, Or all the forces of [your] strength?²⁰ Do not desire the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.²¹ Take heed, do not regard iniquity: For this you have chosen rather than affliction.²² Look, God does loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like him?²³ Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have wrought unrighteousness?

²⁴ Remember that you magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.²⁵ All of man have looked thereon; Common man watches it far off.²⁶ Look, 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 down and drop on man abundantly.²⁹ Yes, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?³⁰ Look, he spreads his light around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea.³¹ For by these he judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.³² He covers his hands with the lightning, And gives it a charge that it strikes the mark.³³ The noise thereof tells concerning him, The cattle also [tell] concerning [the storm] that comes up.