📖 Job 35
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Elihu’s Third Speech Then Elihu answered:
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“Do you think this to be just: when you say,‘My right before God.’
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But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
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I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
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Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
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If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
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If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?
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Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
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“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.
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But no one says,‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
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who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
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Then they cry out– but he does not answer– because of the arrogance of the wicked.
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Surely it is an empty cry– God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.
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How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!
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And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!
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So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”