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- Elihu spake moreouer and saide:
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- Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest, I am more righteous then God?
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- For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne?
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- Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.
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- Loke vnto the heauen and beholde it, consider the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
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- If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him?
If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?
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- If thou be righteous, what geuest thou him?
or what wyll he receaue of thyne hande?
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- Thy wickednesse [may hurt] a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse [may profite] the sonne of man.
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- They which are oppressed crye out vpon the multitude, yea they crye out for the power of the mightie:
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- But none sayth, Where is God that made me?
and that geueth vs occasion to praise him in the night?
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- Which teacheth vs more the the beastes of the earth, and geueth vs more wysdome then the foules of heauen.
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- If any such complaine, no man geueth aunswere, and that because of the wickednesse of proude tirauntes.
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- For God wyll not heare vanitie, neither wyll the almightie regarde it.
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- Although thou sayest [to God] thou wylt not regarde it: yet iudgement is before him, trust thou in him.
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- But now because his anger hath not visited, neither called men to accompt with great extremitie:
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- Therefore doth Iob open his mouth but in vaine, & he maketh many wordes without knowledge.
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