1. Elihu continued:
2. “Listen to me a little longer. Then I will show youthat there is more to be said for God’s side.
3. What I know comes from far away.I will show that God, my Maker, is right.
4. You can be sure that my words are not false.One who really knows is with you.
5. “God is powerful, but he does not hate people.He is powerful and sure of what he wants to do.
6. God will not keep evil people alive.But he gives troubled people their rights.
7. God does not stop watching over those who do right.He sets them on thrones with kings.And he lifts them up on high forever.
8. People may be bound in chains.Or trouble may tie them up like ropes around them.
9. But then God tells them what they have done.He tells them they have sinned by being too proud.