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  • Then Elihu said:
  • Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice

    Moreover Elihu answered and said,
  • “Do you think this is just?
    You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
  • Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
  • Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,a
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’
  • For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?
  • “I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.
  • I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
  • Look up at the heavens and see;
    gaze at the clouds so high above you.
  • Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
  • If you sin, how does that affect him?
    If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
  • If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? 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?
  • If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
  • Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,
    and your righteousness only other people.
  • Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
  • “People cry out under a load of oppression;
    they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
  • By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:
  • But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
    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 he teachesb the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser thanc the birds in the sky?’
  • Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
  • He does not answer when people cry out
    because of the arrogance of the wicked.
  • There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.
  • Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;
    the Almighty pays no attention to it.
  • Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
  • How much less, then, will he listen
    when you say that you do not see him,
    that your case is before him
    and you must wait for him,
  • Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.
  • and further, that his anger never punishes
    and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.d
  • But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?
  • So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;
    without knowledge he multiplies words.”
  • For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

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