Elihu also
proceeded, and said,
02 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that
I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
03 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will
ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
04 For truly my words shall not be false: he that
is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
05 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any:
he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
06 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but
giveth right to the poor.
07 He withdraweth not his eyes from the
righteous: but with kings are they on the throne;
yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they
are exalted.
08 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden
in cords of affliction;
09 Then he sheweth them their work, and their
transgressions that they have exceeded.
10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and
commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend
their days in prosperity, and their years in
pleasures.
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the
sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath:
they cry not when he bindeth them.
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the
unclean.
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and
openeth their ears in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the
strait into a broad place, where there is no
straitness; and that which should be set on thy
table should be full of fatness.
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17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the
wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take
thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom
cannot deliver thee.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor
all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off
in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast
thou chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who
teacheth like him?
23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say,
Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men
behold.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar
off.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not,
neither can the number of his years be searched
out.
27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they
pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man
abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the
clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and
covereth the bottom of the sea.
31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth
meat in abundance.
32 With clouds he covereth the light; and
commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that
cometh betwixt.
33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the
cattle also concerning the vapour.
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