1 THEN Elihu added, and said,

2 Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for there are yet words to speak on God's behalf.

3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4 For truly my words are not deceitful, and my knowledge is blameless with you.

5 Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise him who is pure as milk.

6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked; but gives justice to the poor.

7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; he sets kings on the throne; yea, they are exalted for ever.

8 And if they be bound in chains, then they go down through destruction to poverty.

9 Then he shows them their works, and their transgression because they have exceeded their power.

10 He opens also their ears to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

11 If they obey and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures.

12 But if they do not obey, they shall perish by destruction, and they shall perish without knowledge.

13 But the hypocrites in heart shall be consumed, they shall not cry for help; yet they shall cry angrily when he binds them.

14 They shall die in youth, and their life is snatched by famine.

15 But the meek shall be delivered through his meekness, and he opens their way in time of oppression.

16 Even so he shall deliver you from the mouth of the mocker, and give you rest instead of distress; and he shall prepare a table with rich food.

17 But he shall judge the wicked to the limit: judgment and justice shall take hold on them.

18 He will not threaten you with a raging anger, nor will he cause you to be in need of a great ransom.

19 He shall join you, that he may deliver you; you shall not be distressed by any of those who are mighty in power.

20 He shall deliver you from those who drive you away in the night, and give peoples for your sake, and the nations for your life.

21 Take heed, that you may not return to iniquity: because for this you were tried by poverty.

22 Behold, God is mighty in power: who can teach like him?

23 Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

24 Remember that his works are great, and all men have praised him.

25 All the peoples have seen it, and beheld it from afar.

26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, the number of his years is unsearchable.

27 For if we should number the pillars of the heaven, and bind the drops of rain by themselves, which the skies do drop in their season;

28 And which the clouds pour down upon men, and cause them to be exceedingly glad;

29 Who can understand these things, or the spreading of the clouds out of the greatness of his tabernacle?

30 Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

31 For by these he judges the people; and he gives food to many.

32 He covers the light with the clouds, and then it shines upon them again that they may greet it.

33 He shows his possessions to his friends, and to the wicked also.