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# Job 35
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1. And Elihu answered and said:
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2. “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
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3. that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
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4. I will answer you and your friends with you.
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5. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
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6. If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
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7. If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
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8. Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
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9. “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
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10. But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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11. who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
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12. There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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13. Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
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14. How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
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15. And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,
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16. Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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(ESV)
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