| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Elihu continued and said, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Wait for me a little, and I will show you That there is yet more to be said in God's behalf. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any; He is mighty in strength of understanding. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"He does not keep the wicked alive, But gives justice to the afflicted. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But with kings on the throne He has seated them forever, and they are exalted. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"And if they are bound in fetters, And are caught in the cords of affliction, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then He declares to them their work And their transgressions, that they have magnified themselves. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"He opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they return from evil. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"If they hear and serve Him, They will end their days in prosperity And their years in pleasures. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"But if they do not hear, they shall perish by the sword And they will die without knowledge. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"But the godless in heart lay up anger; They do not cry for help when He binds them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"They die in youth, And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"He delivers the afflicted in their affliction, And opens their ear in time of oppression. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress, Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint; And that which was set on your table was full of fatness. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"But you were full of judgment on the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing; And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Will your riches keep you from distress, Or all the forces of your strength? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Do not long for the night, When people vanish in their place. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Be careful, do not turn to evil, For you have preferred this to affliction. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Behold, God is exalted in His power; Who is a teacher like Him? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Who has appointed Him His way, And who has said, 'You have done wrong '? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Remember that you should exalt His work, Of which men have sung. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"All men have seen it; Man beholds from afar. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"For by these He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32"He covers His hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Its noise declares His presence; The cattle also, concerning what is coming up. |
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