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Chapter 35
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Elihu spake moreover, and said, |
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Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My
righteousness is more than God's? |
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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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I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. |
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Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds
which are higher than thou. |
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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if
thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto
him? |
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If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what
receiveth he of thine hand? |
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Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
righteousness may profit the son of man. |
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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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But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs
in the night; |
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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,
and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? |
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There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of
the pride of evil men. |
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
regard it. |
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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment
is before him; therefore trust thou in him. |
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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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Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth
words without knowledge. |
