Chapter 35

  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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