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Elihu also proceeded, and said, |
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Suffer me a little, and I will shew 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: one that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. |
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Behold, God is mighty, and 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 afflicted {cf15i 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 taken in the cords of affliction; |
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Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. |
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He openeth also their ear to instruction, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
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If they hearken and serve {cf15i 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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They die in youth, and their life {cf15i perisheth} among the unclean. |
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He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, and openeth their ear in oppression. |
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Yea, he would have led thee away out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table should be full of fatness. |
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But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold {cf15i on thee}. |
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Because there is wrath, beware lest thou be led away by {cf15i thy} sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside. |
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Will thy riches suffice, {cf15i that thou be} not in distress, or all the forces of {cf15i 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 unto him? |
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Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, 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, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable. |
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For he draweth up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapour: |
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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 spreadeth his light around him; and he covereth the bottom of the sea. |
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For by these he judgeth the peoples; he giveth meat 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 him, the cattle also concerning {cf15i the storm} that cometh up. |
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