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¹ AGAIN Elihu spoke, and said,² Do you think you were justified in saying, I have been found blameless by God?³ If you have said it, what advantage will it be to you? And what should I gain if I should condemn you?⁴ I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.⁵ Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.⁶ If you sin, what difference does it make to him? And if your iniquities be multiplied, what does it matter to him?⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?⁸ Your wickedness is to yourself; and your righteousness is to yourself.

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions men howl; and many cry out because of iniquity.¹⁰ And none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives counsel in the night,¹¹ Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of the air?¹² They cry, but he does not answer them,¹³ Because God does not hear the empty pride of evildoers, nor does he praise it.

¹⁴ Although you have said, I will not praise him, plead before him and supplicate before him.¹⁵ For now he does not punish with his anger; and he does not harm any soul.¹⁶ Therefore Job has spoken in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.