- 1. Moreover Elihu answered,
- 2. "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
- 3. That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
- 4. I will answer you, and your companions with you.
- 5. Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
- 6. If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
- 7. If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
- 8. Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
- 9. "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- 10. But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- 11. who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
- 12. There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
- 13. Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
- 14. How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
- 15. But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
- 16. Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
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