Job 35
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Moreover Elihu answered and said,
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Think you this to be [your] right, [Or] say you, My righteousness is more than God`s,
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That you say, What advantage will it be to you? [And], 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 skies, which are higher than you.
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If you have sinned, what effect you against him? And if your transgressions be multiplied,
what do you to him?
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If you be righteous, what give you him? Or what receives he of your hand?
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Your wickedness [may hurt] a man as you are; And your righteousness [may profit] a
son of man.
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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason
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, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men.
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Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], Neither will the Almighty regard it.
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How much less when you say you behold him not, The cause is before him, and you wait
for him!
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But now, because he has not visited in his anger, Neither does he greatly regard arrogance;
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Therefore does Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplies words without knowledge.