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And Elihu continued, and said:
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“Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf.
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I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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“Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
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He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
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He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
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And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
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then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
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He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.
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If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
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But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
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“The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
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They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.
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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
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He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
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“But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
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Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
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Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
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Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
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Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
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Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
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Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?
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“Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
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All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.
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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 draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,
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which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.
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Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
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Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
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For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.
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He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
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Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.