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.