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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Elihu said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I am in the right, not God.' |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If 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] | 8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But 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 he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?' |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words." |
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