101 lines
3.1 KiB
Markdown
101 lines
3.1 KiB
Markdown
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## Elihu Says God Gives the Afflicted Justice
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###### 1
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Then Elihu continued and said,
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###### 2
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"Wait for me a little, and I will show you That there is yet more to be said in God's behalf.
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###### 3
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I will take up my knowledge from afar, And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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###### 4
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For truly my words are not a lie; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
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###### 5
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Behold, God is mighty but does not reject; _He is_ mighty in the power of _His_ heart.
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###### 6
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He does not keep the wicked alive, But gives justice to the afflicted.
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###### 7
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He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But with kings on the throne He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.
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###### 8
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And if they are bound in fetters, And are caught in the cords of affliction,
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###### 9
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Then He declares to them their work And their transgressions, that they have magnified themselves.
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###### 10
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He opens their ear to discipline, And says that they return from wickedness.
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###### 11
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If they hear and serve _Him_, They will end their days in prosperity And their years in pleasures.
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###### 12
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But if they do not hear, they shall pass away by a weapon And they will breathe their last without knowledge.
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###### 13
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But the godless in heart lay up anger; They do not cry for help when He binds them.
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###### 14
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They die in youth, And their life _perishes_ among the cult prostitutes.
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###### 15
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He delivers the afflicted in their affliction, And opens their ear in _time of_ oppression.
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###### 16
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Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress, Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint; And the comfort of your table full of fatness.
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###### 17
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"But you were full of judgment on the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold _of you_.
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###### 18
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_Beware_ lest wrath entice you to scoffing; And do not let the greatness of the atonement turn you aside.
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###### 19
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Will your cries keep you from distress, Or all the forces of _your_ power?
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###### 20
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Do not long for the night, When people vanish in their place.
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###### 21
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Be careful, do not turn to wickedness, For you have chosen this to affliction.
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###### 22
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Behold, God is exalted in His power; Who is a teacher like Him?
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Who has appointed Him His way, And who has said, 'You have worked _out_ unrighteousness'?
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"Remember that you should exalt His work, Of which men have sung.
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All men have beheld it; Man looks from afar.
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###### 26
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Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know _Him_; The number of His years is unsearchable.
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###### 27
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For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain for His stream,
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###### 28
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Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.
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###### 29
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Can anyone discern the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?
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###### 30
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Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea.
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###### 31
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For by these He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance.
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###### 32
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He covers _His_ hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.
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###### 33
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Its thundering declares about Him; The cattle also, concerning what is coming up.
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