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[1]And Elihu answereth and saith: --
[2]This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness [is] more than God's?'
[3]For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
[4]I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
[5]Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
[6]If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
[7]If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
[8]For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
[9]Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
[10]And none said, `Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,
[11]Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
[12]There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.
[13]Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
[14]Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.
[15]And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.
[16]And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
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