Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 And Elius further continued, and said,
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Elihu continued and said:
2 Wait for me yet a little while, that I may teach thee: for there is yet speech in me.
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"Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.
3 Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,
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I will bring my knowledge from far away, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 I will speak just things truly, and thou shalt not unjustly receive unjust words.
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For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
5 But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,
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"Surely God is mighty and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
6 he will not by any means save alive the ungodly: and he will grant the judgment of the poor.
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He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
7 He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.
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He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
8 But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.
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And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
9 And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.
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then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.
10 But he will hearken to the righteous: and he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.
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He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they should hear and serve , they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in honour.
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If they listen, and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
12 But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.
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But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.
13 And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath ; they will not cry, because he has bound them.
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"The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
14 Therefore let their soul die in youth, and their life be wounded by messengers .
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They die in their youth, and their life ends in shame.
15 Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.
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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
16 And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:
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He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
17 a deep gulf a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;
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"But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
18 but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.
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Beware that wrath does not entice you into scoffing, and do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
19 Let not mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.
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Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or will all the force of your strength?
20 And draw not forth all the mighty by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.
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Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.
21 But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong: for of this thou has made choice because of poverty.
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Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.
22 Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?
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See, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
23 And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?
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Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, "You have done wrong'?
24 Remember that his works are great those which men have attempted.
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"Remember to extol his work, of which mortals have sung.
25 Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.
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All people have looked on it; everyone watches it from far away.
26 Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know : the number of his years is even infinite.
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Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.
27 And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.
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For he draws up the drops of water; he distills his mist in rain,
28 The ancient shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in body.
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which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly.
29 And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, the measure of his tabernacle;
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Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
30 behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.
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See, he scatters his lightning around him and covers the roots of the sea.
31 For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.
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For by these he governs peoples; he gives food in abundance.
32 He has hidden the light in hands, and given charge concerning it to the interposing .
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He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
33 The Lord will declare concerning this his friend: a portion also for unrighteousness.
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Its crashing tells about him; he is jealous with anger against iniquity.
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