“Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou sayest my righteousness is more than God's?”
Job 35
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1And Elihu went on to say:
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2"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I am more righteous than God.'
3For you ask, 'What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?'
“For thou saidst, what advantage will it be unto thee? And what shall our profit I have if I be cleansed from my sin?”
4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
“I? Will answer thee and thy companions with thee”
5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
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6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
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7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
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8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
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9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
“by reason of the multitude of oppressions. They make the oppressed to cry. They cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.”
“because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.”
10But no one asks, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
“But none says where is God my maker who gives songs in the night?”
“But no one says where is God my maker who gives songs in the night?”
“No one says, where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night,”
11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
“Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven”
“Who teaches us more than the beast of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of the heaven”
“who teaches us more than the beast of the earth, makes us wiser than the birds of heaven.”
12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
“there they cry. But none gives answer because of the pride of evil man.”
“there they cry out. But he does not answer because of the pride of evil men.”
13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
“Surely God will not hear vanity and neither will the almighty regard it.”
14How much less, then, 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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15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
“but now because it is not so he hath visited in his anger yet. He knows It not in great extremity”
16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge."
“therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain. He multiplies words without knowledge.”
“Job opens his mouth emptily. He multiplies words without knowledge.”