| 1절 | Elihu also proceeded and said：
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| 2절 | \"Bear with me a little, and I will show you That there are yet words to speak on God\'s behalf.
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| 3절 | I will fetch my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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| 4절 | For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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| 5절 | \"Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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| 6절 | He does not preserve the life of the wicked, But gives justice to the oppressed.
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| 7절 | He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But they are on the throne with kings, For He has seated them forever, And they are exalted.
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| 8절 | And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction,
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| 9절 | Then He tells them their work and their transgressions--That they have acted defiantly.
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| 10절 | He also opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they turn from iniquity.
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| 11절 | If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
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| 12절 | But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
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| 13절 | \"But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath; They do not cry for help when He binds them.
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| 14절 | They die in youth, And their life ends among the perverted persons.
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| 15절 | He delivers the poor in their affliction, And opens their ears in oppression.
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| 16절 | \"Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress, Into a broad place where there is no restraint; And what is set on your table would be full of richness.
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| 17절 | But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you.
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| 18절 | Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.
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| 19절 | Will your riches, Or all the mighty forces, Keep you from distress?
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| 20절 | Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
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| 21절 | Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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| 22절 | \"Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
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| 23절 | Who has assigned Him His way, Or who has said, \'You have done wrong\'?
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| 24절 | \"Remember to magnify His work, Of which men have sung.
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| 25절 | Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.
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| 26절 | \"Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
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| 27절 | For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,
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| 28절 | Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.
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| 29절 | Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
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| 30절 | Look, He scatters his light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea.
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| 31절 | For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
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| 32절 | He covers His hands with lightning, And commands it to strike.
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| 33절 | His thunder declares it, The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.
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