Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 And Elius resumed and said,
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Elihu continued and said:
2 What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?
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"Do you think this to be just? You say, "I am in the right before God.'
3 I will answer thee, and thy three friends.
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If you ask, "What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
4 Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high above thee.
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I will answer you and your friends with you.
5 If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?
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Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
6 and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?
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If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand?
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If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Thy ungodliness a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man.
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Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.
9 They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.
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"Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;
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But no one says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night,
11 who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?
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who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
12 There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men.
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There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.
13 For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.
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Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
14 He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is even now.
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How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
15 For he is not regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.
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And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
16 Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.
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Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."
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