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| 35:1 |
Then Elihu said:
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| 35:2 |
"Do you think this is just? You say, `I will be cleared by God.
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| 35:3 |
'Yet you ask him, `What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?
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| 35:4 |
"'I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
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| 35:5 |
Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
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| 35:6 |
If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
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| 35:7 |
If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
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| 35:8 |
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.
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| 35:9 |
"Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
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| 35:10 |
But no one says, `Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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| 35:11 |
who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?
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| 35:12 |
'He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
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| 35:13 |
Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
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| 35:14 |
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,
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| 35:15 |
and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
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| 35:16 |
So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."
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