| 1. | Elihu proceeded further and said: |
| 2. | Wait yet a little and I will instruct you, for there are still words to be said on God's behalf. |
| 3. | I will bring my knowledge from afar, and to my Maker I will accord the right. |
| 4. | For indeed, my theme cannot fail me: the one perfect in knowledge I set before you. |
| 5. | Behold, God rejects the obstinate in heart; he preserves not the life of the wicked. |
| 6. | He withholds not the just man's rights, but grants vindication to the oppressed, |
| 7. | And with kings upon thrones he sets them, exalted forever. |
| 8. | Or if they are bound with fetters and held fast by bonds of affliction, |
| 9. | Then he makes known to them what they have done and their sins of boastful pride. |
| 10. | He opens their ears to correction and exhorts them to turn back from evil. |
| 11. | If they obey and serve him, they spend their days in prosperity, their years in happiness. |
| 12. | But if they obey not, they perish; they die for lack of knowledge. |
| 13. | The impious in heart lay up anger for themselves; they cry not for help when he enchains them; |
| 14. | Therefore they expire in youth, and perish among the reprobate. |
| 15. | But he saves the unfortunate through their affliction, and instructs them through distress. |
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| 21. | Take heed, turn not to evil; for you have preferred carousal to affliction. |
| 22. | Behold, God is sublime in his power. What teacher is there like him? |
| 23. | Who prescribes for him his conduct, or who can say, "You have done wrong"? |
| 24. | Remember, you should extol his work, which men have praised in song. |
| 25. | All men contemplate it; man beholds it from afar. |
| 26. | Lo, God is great beyond our knowledge; the number of his years is past searching out. |
| 27. | He holds in check the waterdrops that filter in rain through his mists, |
| 28. | Till the skies run with them and the showers rain down on mankind. |
| 30. | Lo! he spreads the clouds in layers as the carpeting of his tent. |
| 31. | For by these he nourishes the nations, and gives them food in abundance. |
| 32. | In his hands he holds the lightning, and he commands it to strike the mark. |
| 33. | His thunder speaks for him and incites the fury of the storm. |
