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1 - Eliu also proceeded, and said:

2 - Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee: for I have yet somewhat to speak in God's behalf.

3 - I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

4 - For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.

5 - God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

6 - But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

7 - He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

8 - And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

9 - He shall shew them their works, and their wicked deeds, because they have been violent.

10 - He also shall open their ear, to correct them: and shall speak, that they may return from iniquity.

11 - If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

12 - But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

13 - Dissemblers and crafty men prove the wrath of God, neither shall they cry when they are bound.

14 - Their soul shall die in a storm, and their life among the effeminate.

15 - He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

16 - Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

17 - Thy cause hath been judged as that of the wicked, cause and judgment thou shalt recover.

18 - Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

19 - Lay down thy greatness without tribulation, and all the mighty of strength.

20 - Prolong not the night that people may come up for them.

21 - Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.

22 - Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers.

23 - Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?

24 - Remember that thou knowest not his work, concerning which men have sung.

25 - All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.

26 - Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

27 - He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

28 - Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

29 - If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

30 - And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

31 - For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.

32 - In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.

33 - He sheweth his friend concerning it, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it.