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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Elihu continued: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God's behalf. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I get my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe justice to my Maker. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Be assured that my words are not false; one who has perfect knowledge is with you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"God is mighty, but despises no one; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He does not take his eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9he tells them what they have done-- that they have sinned arrogantly. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Be careful that no one entices you by riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Beware of turning to evil, which you seem to prefer to affliction. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"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 wrong'? |
| 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; mortals gaze on it from afar. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26How great is God--beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach. |
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