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1 Then Elihu answered: And Elihu answered and said: Then Elihu said:
2 |Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.' “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
3 But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?' that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
4 I will reply to you, and to your friends with you. I will answer you and your friends with you. “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
5 Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you! Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him? If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand? If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
9 |People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty. “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10 But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night, But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?' who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’ who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
12 Then they cry out--but he does not answer--because of the arrogance of the wicked. There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13 Surely it is an empty cry--God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it. Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him! How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! How 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 And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression! And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
16 So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.| Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.” So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
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