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And Elihu addeth and saith: --
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Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.
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I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
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For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.
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Lo, God is mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty in power and heart.
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He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;
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He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
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And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
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Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
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And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.
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If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
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And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
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And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
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Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
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He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
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And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
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And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
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Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
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Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
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Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
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Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than on affliction.
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Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?
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Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?`
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Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
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All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
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Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.
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When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
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Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
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Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
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Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,
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For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
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By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
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He sheweth by it to his friend substance, Anger against perversity.
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