50 lines
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50 lines
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## Elihu Answers Job
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Then Elihu answered and said,
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"Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?
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For you say, 'What use will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?'
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I will respond to you, And your friends with you.
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Look at the heavens and see; And perceive the clouds--they are higher than you.
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If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
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If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand?
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Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.
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"Because of many oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of many _oppressors_.
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But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs of praise in the night,
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Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
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There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men.
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Surely God will not listen to an empty _cry_, Nor will the Almighty perceive it.
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How much less when you say you do not perceive Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!
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And now, because He has not visited _in_ His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression well,
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So Job opens his mouth vainly; He multiplies words without knowledge."
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