- 1. And Elihu made answer and said,
- 2. Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
- 3. What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
- 4. I will make answer to you and to your friends:
- 5. Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
- 6. 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?
- 7. If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
- 8. Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
- 9. 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.
- 10. But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
- 11. Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
- 12. There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
- 13. But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
- 14. How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
- 15. And now ... ;
- 16. And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
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