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Elihu also proceeded, and said:

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Suffer me a little, and I will tell thee; for there are yet words 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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For truly my words are not false; one that is upright in mind is with thee.

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Behold, God is mighty, yet He despiseth not any; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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He preserveth not the life of the wicked; but giveth to the poor their right.

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He withdraweth not His eyes from the righteous; but with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

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And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

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Then He declareth unto them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

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He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

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If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

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But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

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But they that are godless in heart lay up anger; they cry not for help when He bindeth them.

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Their soul perisheth in youth, and their life as that of the depraved.

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He delivereth the afflicted by His affliction, and openeth their ear by tribulation.

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Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness;

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And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold on them.

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For beware of wrath, lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

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Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?

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Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

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Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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Behold, God doeth loftily in His power; who is a teacher like Him?

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Who hath enjoined Him His way? Or who hath said: 'Thou hast wrought unrighteousness'?

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Remember that thou magnify His work, whereof men have sung.

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All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.

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Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

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For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour;

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Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.

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Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?

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Behold, He spreadeth His light upon it; and He covereth the depths of the sea.

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For by these He judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

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He covereth His hands with the lightning, and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

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The noise thereof telleth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.