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Moreover Elihu answered and said: |
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"Do you think this is right? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'? |
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For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than [if] I had sinned?' |
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" I will answer you, And your companions with you. |
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Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds -- They are higher than you. |
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If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? |
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If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? |
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Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man. |
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"Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
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But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, |
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Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?' |
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There they cry out, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil men. |
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Surely God will not listen to empty [talk,] Nor will the Almighty regard it. |
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Although you say you do not see Him, [Yet] justice [is] before Him, and you must wait for Him. |
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And now, because He has not punished in His anger, Nor taken much notice of folly, |
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Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge." |
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