Job 35 (New International Version)
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Then Elihu said:
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"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I will be cleared1 by God.a '2
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Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me,b and what do I gain by not sinning?'3
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"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
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Look up at the heavens4 and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.5
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If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?6
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If you are righteous, what do you give to him,7 or what does he receive8 from your hand?9
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Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself,10 and your righteousness only the sons of men.11
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"Men cry out12 under a load of oppression;13 they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.14
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But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker,15 who gives songs16 in the night,17
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who teaches18 more to19 us than toc the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser thand the birds of the air?'
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He does not answer20 when men cry out because of the arrogance21 of the wicked.22
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Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.23
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How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him,24 that your case25 is before him and you must wait for him,26
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and further, that his anger never punishes27 and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.e28
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So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;29 without knowledge he multiplies words."30
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