| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Elihu continued and said, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's '? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I will answer you, And your friends with you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- they are higher than you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"How much less when you say you do not behold Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"And now, because He has not visited in His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression well, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge." |
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