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1 | Elihu also proceeded, and said, |
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2 | Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to
speak on God's behalf. |
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3 | I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker. |
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4 | For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee. |
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5 | Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in
strength and wisdom. |
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6 | He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to
the poor. |
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7 | 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. |
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8 | And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of
affliction; |
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9 | Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that
they have exceeded. |
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10 | He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that
they return from iniquity. |
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11 | If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in
prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
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12 | But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they
shall die without knowledge. |
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13 | But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when
he bindeth them. |
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14 | They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. |
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15 | He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their
ears in oppression. |
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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. |
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18 | Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his
stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. |
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19 | Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of
strength. |
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20 | Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. |
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21 | Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen
rather than affliction. |
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22 | Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? |
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23 | Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast
wrought iniquity? |
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24 | Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. |
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25 | Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. |
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26 | Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the
number of his years be searched out. |
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27 | For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain
according to the vapour thereof: |
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28 | Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. |
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29 | Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the
noise of his tabernacle? |
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30 | Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the
bottom of the sea. |
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31 | For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in
abundance. |
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32 | With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to
shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. |
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33 | The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also
concerning the vapour. |
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