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1 Moreover Elihu
answered,
2 “Do you
think this to be
your right,
or do you say, ‘My
righteousness is more than God’s,’
3 that
you ask, ‘What
advantage will it
be to you?
What profit will
I have, more
than if I
had sinned?’
4 I will
answer you,
and your
companions with
you.
5 Look
to the skies,
and see.
See the skies,
which are higher
than you.
6 If
you have sinned,
what effect do
you have against
him?
If your
transgressions are
multiplied, what
do you do
to him?
7 If you
are righteous,
what do you
give him?
Or what does
he receive from
your hand?
8 Your
wickedness may hurt
a man as
you are,
and your
righteousness may profit
a son of
man.
9 “By reason
of the multitude
of oppressions
they cry out.
They cry for
help by reason of
the arm of
the mighty.
10 But
no one says, ‘Where
is God my
Maker,
who gives songs
in the night,
11 who teaches
us more than the animals
of the earth,
and makes us
wiser than the
birds of the
sky?’
12 There
they cry, but
no one answers,
because of the
pride of evil
men.
13 Surely
God will not
hear an empty cry,
neither will the
Almighty regard it.
14 How much
less when you say
you don’t see him.
The cause is
before him, and
you wait for
him!
15 But
now, because he
has not visited
in his anger,
neither does he
greatly regard arrogance,
16 therefore Job
opens his mouth
with empty talk,
and he multiplies
words without
knowledge.”