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- And Elihu answereth and saith: —
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- This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said — `My righteousness [is] more than God's?'
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- For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
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- I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
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- Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
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- If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
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- If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
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- For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
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- Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
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- And none said, `Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,
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- Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
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- There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.
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- Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
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- Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.
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- And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.
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- And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
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