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35:1 |
And Eli'hu said:
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35:2 |
'Do you think this to be just? Do you say, It is my right before God,'
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35:3 |
that you ask, What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
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35:4 |
I will answer you and your friends with you.
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35:5 |
Look at the heavens, and see;and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
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35:6 |
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
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35:7 |
If you are righteous, what do you give to him;or what does he receive from your hand?
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35:8 |
Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
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35:9 |
'Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
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35:10 |
But none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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35:11 |
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
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35:12 |
There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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35:13 |
Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
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35:14 |
How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
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35:15 |
And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
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35:16 |
Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge.'
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