Do not cast me off at the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I have declared Your [mighty] arm to all the generation that is to come;

And Elihu the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you are older, therefore I kept silent, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and brought with them a certain Cypriot named Mnason, a long-standing disciple, with whom we would stay as a guest.

Therefore, having much boldness in Christ to command you what is fitting,

rather on account of love I appeal to you--being such a one as Paul, the elder, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ--

For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake His saints; they shall be preserved forever; the blameless shall be avenged, but the seed of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

For the Lord will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance;

Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you.

For the Lord will not cast off His people for His great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to Himself for a people.

And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the discipline of the LORD, nor be discouraged when you are reproved;

For whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and scourges every son whom He receives."

Let [your] way of life [be] without loving money, being satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, "By no means shall I desert you, nor in any way shall I forsake you;"

His soul shall dwell in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

They shall be scattered here and there for food; and if they are not satisfied, they shall even murmur.

Let his children wander without a dwelling place and beg; let them be cast out of their habitations.

His seed shall be mighty in the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

And I will establish My covenant between you and your seed after you, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be your God, and the God of your seed after you.

And he has been appointed to be food for vultures, and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

A good man shall inherit children's children, and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.

He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.

As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever."