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1 And Elihu will answer and say, And Elihu answered and said: Then Elihu said:
2 Didst thou reckon this for judgment thou saidst, My justice is above 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 For thou wilt say, What shall it profit to thee? what shall I profit from my sin? 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 turn back words to thee, and thy companions with thee. I will answer you and your friends with you. “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
5 Look upon the heavens and see; behold the clouds, they were high above thee. 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 thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do against him? and thy transgressions were multiplied, what wilt thou 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 thou wert just, what wilt thou give to him? or what shall he take from thy 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 Thy injustice to a man as thou: and thy justice to the son of man. 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 From the multitude of oppressions they will cry out: they will cry out from the arm of the many. “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 And not saying, Where is God making me? he gave 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 And who teacheth us from the cattle of the earth, and he will make us wise above the birds of the heavens? 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 will cry, and he will not answer from the face of the pride of the evil. 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 Also God will not hear vanity, and the Almighty will not look upon 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 Also if thou shalt say thou wilt not see him, judgment is before him, and thou shalt wait 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 now that it is not, he reviewed his anger, and he knew not in great 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 And Job will open his mouth in vain; he will bind together words without knowledge. 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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