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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Elihu said further: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God's behalf. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Indeed, God is mighty; and he does not despise people, he is mighty, and firm in his intent. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions, he reveals himself to them by their suffering. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And surely, he drew you from the mouth of distress, to a wide place, unrestricted, and to the comfort of your table filled with rich food. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Yes, God is great--beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm's approach. |
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