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Elihu Condemns Job
And Elihu answered and said:
And Elihu answered and said:
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
“Do you think this to be just?
Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
that you ask, ‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Look at the heavens, and see;
and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness a son of man.
and your righteousness a son of man.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,
who gives songs in the night,
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.
because of the pride of evil men.
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
nor does the Almighty regard it.
nor does the Almighty regard it.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
How much less when you say that you do not see him,
that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: