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¹ Elihu also proceeded and said: ² That there are yet words to speak on God’s behalf. ³ I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. ⁴ One who is perfect in knowledge is with you. ⁵ He is mighty in strength of understanding. ⁶ But gives justice to the oppressed. ⁷ And they are exalted. ⁸ Held in the cords of affliction, ⁹ That they have acted defiantly. ¹⁰ And commands that they turn from iniquity. ¹¹ And their years in pleasures. ¹² And they shall die without knowledge. ¹³ They do not cry for help when He binds them. ¹⁴ And their life ends among the perverted persons. ¹⁵ And opens their ears in oppression. ¹⁶ And what is set on your table would be full of richness. ¹⁷ Judgment and justice take hold of you. ¹⁸ For a large ransom would not help you avoid it. ¹⁹ Keep you from distress? ²⁰ When people are cut off in their place. ²¹ For you have chosen this rather than affliction. ²² Who teaches like Him? ²³ Or who has said, ‘You have done wrong’? ²⁴ Of which men have sung. ²⁵ Man looks on it from afar. ²⁶ Nor can the number of His years be discovered. ²⁷ Which distill as rain from the mist, ²⁸ And pour abundantly on man. ²⁹ The thunder from His canopy? ³⁰ And covers the depths of the sea. ³¹ He gives food in abundance. ³² And commands it to strike. ³³ The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.