¹ Elihu also proceeded, and said, ² Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet 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 will not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge [is] with you. ⁵ See, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. ⁶ He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor. ⁷ He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted. ⁸ And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction; ⁹ Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. ¹⁰ He opens also their ear 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 obey not, they will perish by the sword, and they will die without knowledge. ¹³ But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them. ¹⁴ They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. ¹⁵ He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression. ¹⁶ Even so would he have removed you out of the distress into a broad place, where there is no distress; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness. ¹⁷ But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on you]. ¹⁸ Because there is wrath, beware in case he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you. ¹⁹ Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. ²⁰ Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. ²¹ Take care, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction. ²² See, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him? ²³ Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, you have worked iniquity? ²⁴ Remember that you magnify his work, which men see. ²⁵ Every man may see it man may see it afar off. ²⁶ See, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. ²⁷ For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour of it ²⁸ Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly. ²⁹ Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? ³⁰ See, he spreads his light on it, and covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹ For by them judges he the people he gives meat in abundance. ³² With clouds he covers the light and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes betwixt. ³³ The noise of it shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.