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Elihu also proceeded, and said,
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Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say 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.) He who is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
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He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
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And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,
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then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
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He also opens their ear to instruction, and commands 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 do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
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But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.
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They die in youth, and their life perishes among the unclean.
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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
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Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
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But thou have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold,
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and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
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Will thy cry not avail in distress, or all the forces of strength?
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Do not desire the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
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Take heed. Do not turn to iniquity, for thou have fixed on this because of affliction.
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Behold, God does loftily in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
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Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?
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Remember that thou magnify his work, of which men have sung.
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All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.
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Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
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For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,
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which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
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Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
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Behold, he spreads his light around him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
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For by these he judges the peoples. He gives food in abundance.
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He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.
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The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.