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Elihu Condemns Job
And Elihu answered and said:
And Elihu answered and said:
Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Justice
Then Elihu said:
Then Elihu 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,’
“Do you think it is right for you to claim,
‘I am righteous before God’?
‘I am righteous before God’?
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 you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me?
What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
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 up into the sky,
and see the clouds high above you.
and see the clouds high above you.
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 you sin, how does that affect God?
Even if you sin again and again,
what effect will it have on him?
Even if you sin again and again,
what effect will it have on 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 you are good, is this some great gift to him?
What could you possibly give him?
What could you possibly give him?
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness a son of man.
and your righteousness a son of man.
No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
“People cry out when they are oppressed.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,
who gives songs in the night,
Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator,
the one who gives songs in the night?
the one who gives 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?’
Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
and wiser than the birds of the sky?’
and wiser than the birds of the sky?’
There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.
because of the pride of evil men.
And when they cry out, God does not answer
because of their pride.
because of their pride.
Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
nor does the Almighty regard it.
nor does the Almighty regard it.
But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen,
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
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!