the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Job 35
1 And Elihu answers and says:2 "Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, || My righteousness [is] more than God's?3 For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?4 I return words, and your friends with you,5 Behold attentively the heavens—and see, || And behold the clouds, || They have been higher than you.6 If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, || What do you do to Him?7 If you have been righteous, || What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?8 For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, || And for a son of man your righteousness.
9 Because of the multitude of oppressions || They cause to cry out, || They cry because of the arm of the mighty.10 And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, || Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.12 There they cry, and He does not answer, || Because of the pride of evildoers.13 Surely God does not hear vanity, || And the Mighty does not behold it.
14 Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, || Judgment [is] before Him, and stays for Him.15 And now, because there is not, || He has appointed His anger, || And He has not known in great extremity.16 And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, || He multiplies words without knowledge."
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