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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Elihu continued:
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And Elihu addeth and saith: --
2 “Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God’s behalf.
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Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God [are] words.
3 I get my knowledge from afar; I will ascribe justice to my Maker.
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I lift up my knowledge from afar, And to my Maker I ascribe righteousness.
4 Be assured that my words are not false; one who has perfect knowledge is with you.
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For, truly, my words [are] not false, The perfect in knowledge [is] with thee.
5 “God is mighty, but despises no one; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.
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Lo, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not, Mighty [in] power [and] heart.
6 He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their rights.
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He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;
7 He does not take his eyes off the righteous; he enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
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He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
8 But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
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And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,
9 he tells them what they have done— that they have sinned arrogantly.
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Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,
10 He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
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And He uncovereth their ear for instruction, And saith that they turn back from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
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If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
12 But if they do not listen, they will perish by the swordand die without knowledge.
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And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
13 “The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.
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And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.
14 They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines.
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Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.
15 But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
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He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
16 “He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.
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And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
17 But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you.
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And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,
18 Be careful that no one entices you by riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
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Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.
19 Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?
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Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.
20 Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes.
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Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.
21 Beware of turning to evil, which you seem to prefer to affliction.
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Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than [on] affliction.
22 “God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
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Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who [is] like Him -- a teacher?
23 Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, ‘You have done wrong’?
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Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'
24 Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.
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Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.
25 All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar.
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All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.
26 How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
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Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.
27 “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams ;
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When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
28 the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.
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Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?
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Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
30 See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.
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Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,
31 This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.
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For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
32 He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
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By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
33 His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach.
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He sheweth by it [to] his friend substance, Anger against perversity.
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