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¹ Moreover Elihu answered and said: ² "Do you think this is right? Do you say, "My righteousness is more than God's'? ³ For you say, "What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' ⁴ "I will answer you, And your companions with you. ⁵ Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are higher than you. ⁶ If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man.

⁹ "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ But no one says, "Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, ¹¹ Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?' ¹² There they cry out, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴ Although you say you do not see Him, Yet justice is before Him, and you must wait for Him. ¹⁵ And now, because He has not punished in His anger, Nor taken much notice of folly, ¹⁶ Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge."