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Elihu Answers Job

¹ Then Elihu answered and said,

² "Do you think this is according to ^(C1)justice?
Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?

³ "For you say, '^(C1)What use will it be to ^(F1)You?
^(C2)What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?'

⁴ "I will respond to you,
And your friends with you.

⁵ "^(C1)Look at the heavens and see;
And perceive ^(C2)the clouds—they are higher than you.

⁶ "If you have sinned, ^(C1)what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

⁷ "If you are righteous, ^(C1)what do you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

⁸ "Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,
And your righteousness is for a son of man.

⁹ "Because of ^(C1)many oppressions they cry out;
They cry for help because of the arm ^(C2)of many oppressors.

¹⁰ "But ^(C1)no one says, 'Where is God my Maker,
Who ^(C2)gives songs of praise in the night,

¹¹ Who ^(C1)teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

¹² "There ^(C1)they cry out, but He does not answer
Because of the pride of evil men.

¹³ "Surely ^(C1)God will not listen to ^(F1)an empty cry,
Nor will the Almighty perceive it.

¹⁴ "How much less when ^(C1)you say you do not perceive Him,
The ^(C2)case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

¹⁵ "And now, because He has not visited in His anger,
Nor has He acknowledged ^(F1)transgression well,

¹⁶ So Job opens his mouth vainly;
He multiplies words ^(C1)without knowledge."