Job 35 / 42
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(Elihu Condemns Job)
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."