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¹ And Elihu addeth and saith: --² Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.³ I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.⁴ For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.

⁵ Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.⁶ He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;⁷ He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,⁸ And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,⁹ Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,¹⁰ And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.¹¹ If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.¹² And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.¹³ And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.¹⁴ Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

¹⁵ He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.¹⁶ And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.¹⁷ And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,¹⁸ Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.¹⁹ Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.²⁰ Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.²¹ Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.²² Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher?²³ Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'

²⁴ Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.²⁵ All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.²⁶ Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.²⁷ When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,²⁸ Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.²⁹ Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?³⁰ Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,³¹ For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.³² By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,³³ He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.