✧Elihu also proceeded, and said, ✧2Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf. ✧3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. ✧4For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. ✧5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding. ✧6He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted [their] right. ✧7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted. ✧8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction; ✧9Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. ✧10He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity. ✧11If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures. ✧12But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge. ✧13But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them. ✧14They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean. ✧15He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression. ✧16Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness. ✧17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. ✧18For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside. ✧19Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength? ✧20Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place. ✧21Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. ✧22Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him? ✧23Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness? ✧24Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung. ✧25All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off. ✧26Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable. ✧27For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor, ✧28Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly. ✧29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion? ✧30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea. ✧31For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance. ✧32He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark. ✧33The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that cometh up.