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| 1 And Elihu proceeded and said, |
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| 2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet words for +God. |
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| 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator. |
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| 4 For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee. |
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| 5 Lo, *God is mighty, but despiseth not any; mighty in strength of understanding: |
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| 6 He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted. |
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| 7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne doth he even set them for ever; and they are exalted. |
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| 8 And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction, |
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| 9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased. |
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| 10 And he openeth their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. |
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| 11 If they hearken and serve him, they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. |
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| 12 But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge. |
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| 13 But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them: |
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| 14 Their soul dieth in youth, and their life is among the unclean. |
They – Margin: Their soul. It is not the body, but the being, called in scripture "soul", that dies. R205:4, R277:1
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| 15 But he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression. |
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| 16 Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table would be full of fatness. |
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| 17 But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee2. |
Take hold on thee – "Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne." (Psa. 89:14) T124
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| 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee. |
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| 19 Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength! |
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| 20 Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place. |
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| 21 Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. |
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| 22 Lo, *God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he? |
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| 23 Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness? |
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| 24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate. |
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| 25 All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off. |
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| 26 Lo, *God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. |
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| 27 For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth, |
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| 28 Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly. |
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| 29 But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the crashing of his pavilion? |
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| 30 Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea. |
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| 31 For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance. |
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| 32 His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike. |
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| 33 His thundering declareth concerning him; the cattle even, concerning its coming. |
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