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| 1Then Elihu answered: | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.' | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?' | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4I will reply to you, and to your friends with you. | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you! | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him? | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand? | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9"People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty. | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night, | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?' | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12Then they cry out--but he does not answer--because of the arrogance of the wicked. | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13Surely it is an empty cry--God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it. | 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 14How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him! | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression! | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words." | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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