Elihu proclaims God's goodness
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And Elihu adds and says:
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“Honor me a little, and I show you, || That yet for God [are] words.
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I lift up my knowledge from afar, || And I ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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For my words [are] truly not false, || The perfect in knowledge [is] with you.
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Behold, God [is] mighty, and does not despise, || Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
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He does not revive the wicked, || And appoints the judgment of the poor;
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He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, || And [from] kings on the throne, || And causes them to sit forever, and they are high,
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And if prisoners in chains || They are captured with cords of affliction,
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Then He declares to them their work, || And their transgressions, || Because they have become mighty,
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And He uncovers their ear for instruction, || And commands that they turn back from iniquity.
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If they hear and serve, || They complete their days in good, || And their years in pleasantness.
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And if they do not listen, || They pass away by the dart, || And expire without knowledge.
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And the profane in heart set the face, || They do not cry when He has bound them.
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Their soul dies in youth, || And their life among the defiled.
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He draws out the afflicted in his affliction, || And uncovers their ear in oppression.
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And He also moved you from a narrow place || [To] a broad place—no constriction under it, || And the sitting beyond of your table has been full of fatness.
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And you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, || Judgment and justice are upheld because of fury,
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Lest He move you with a stroke, || And the abundance of an atonement not turn you aside.
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Does He value your riches? He has gold, and all the forces of power.
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Do not desire the night, || For the going up of peoples in their stead.
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Take heed—do not turn to iniquity, || For you have fixed on this || Rather than [on] affliction.
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Behold, God sits on high by His power, || Who [is] like Him—a teacher?
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Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
Elihu proclaims God's majesty
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Remember that you magnify His work || That men have beheld.
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All men have looked on it, || Man looks attentively from afar.
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Behold, God [is] high, || And we do not know the number of His years, || Indeed, there [is] no searching.
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When He diminishes droppings of the waters, || They refine rain according to its vapor,
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Which clouds drop, || They distill on man abundantly.
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Indeed, do [any] understand || The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?
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Behold, He has spread His light over it, || And He has covered the roots of the sea,
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For He judges peoples by them, || He gives food in abundance.
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By two palms He has covered the light, || And lays a charge over it in meeting,
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His shout shows it, || The livestock also, the rising [storm].”
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