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Elihu also proceeded,
and said,

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Suffer me a little,
and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak 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 shall not be false:
he 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 and wisdom.

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He preserveth not the life of the wicked:
but giveth right to the poor.

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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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And if they be bound in fetters,
and be holden in cords of affliction;

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Then he sheweth them their work,
and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

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He openeth also their ear to discipline,
and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

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If they obey and serve him,
they shall spend their days in prosperity,
and their years in pleasures.

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But if they obey not,
they shall perish by the sword,
and they shall die without knowledge.

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But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath:
they cry not when he bindeth them.

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They die in youth,
and their life is among the unclean.

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He delivereth the poor in his affliction,
and openeth their ears in oppression.

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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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But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked:
judgment and justice take hold on thee.

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Because there is wrath,
beware lest he take thee away with his stroke:
then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

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Will he esteem thy riches?
no,
not gold,
nor all the forces of strength.

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Desire not the night,
when people 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 exalteth by his power:
who teacheth like him?

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Who hath enjoined him his way?
or who can say,
Thou hast wrought iniquity?

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Remember that thou magnify his work,
which men behold.

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Every man may see it;
man may behold it afar off.

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Behold,
God is great,
and we know him not,
neither can the number of his years be searched out.

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For he maketh small the drops of water:
they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

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Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

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Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds,
or the noise of his tabernacle?

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Behold,
he spreadeth his light upon it,
and covereth the bottom of the sea.

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For by them judgeth he the people;
he giveth meat in abundance.

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With clouds he covereth the light;
and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

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The noise thereof sheweth concerning it,
the cattle also concerning the vapour.