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And Elihu answered and said: |
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"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,' |
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that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?' |
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I will answer you and your friends with you. |
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Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. |
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If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? |
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If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? |
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Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. |
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"Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
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But none 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 the heavens?' |
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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 does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. |
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How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! |
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And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, |
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Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge." |
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