Chapter 35

  Elihu spoke moreover, and said,  

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  Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?  

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  For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?  

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  I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.  

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  Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.  

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  If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?  

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  If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?  

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  Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.  

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  By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.  

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  But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;  

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  Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?  

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  There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.  

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  Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.  

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  Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.  

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  But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:  

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  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.  

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