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[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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[3]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. |