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1Then Elihu said:

1In response, Elihu said:

2"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I am in the right, not God.'

2"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, 'I'm more righteous than God?'

3Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'

3After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: 'What will I profit from refraining from sin?'

4"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.

4I'm going to respond to that statement, and to your friends with you."

5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

5"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?

6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

6If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?

7If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

7If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts?

8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

8Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.

9"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

9"They cry out because they have many oppressors; they cry for help because the powerful are abusing them.

10But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

10He never asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,

11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'

11who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

12"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.

13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.

13Theirs is a useless plea— God won't listen; the Almighty won't pay any attention.

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,

14Even though you complain that you can't perceive him, your case is already pending for judgment in his presence so keep on placing your hope in him.

15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.

15"So now, if he doesn't inflict punishment in his anger, then he doesn't keep track of your many transgressions.

16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."

16When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything."

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