| 1: Elihu spake moreover, and said, |
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| 2: Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My
righteousness is more than God's? |
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For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and,
What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? |
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| 4: I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
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| 5: Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which
are higher than thou. |
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| 6: If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy
transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? |
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| 7: If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth
he of thine hand? |
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| 8: Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
righteousness may profit the son of man. |
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| 9: By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the
oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. |
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| 10: But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in
the night; |
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| 11: Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh
us wiser than the fowls of heaven? |
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| 12: There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride
of evil men. |
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| 13: Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
regard it. |
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| 14: Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is
before him; therefore trust thou in him. |
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| 15: But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger;
yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: |
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| 16: Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth
words without knowledge. |
