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- And Elihu made answer and said,
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- Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
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- What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
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- I will make answer to you and to your friends:
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- Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies;
they are higher than you.
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- If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it?
and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
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- If you are upright, what do you give to him?
or what does he take from your hand?
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- Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
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- Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief;
they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.
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- But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
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- Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
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- There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
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- But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
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- How much less when you say that you do not see him;
that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
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- And now … ;
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- And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
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