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Elihu Keeps On Talking

¹ Then Elihu said, ² "Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘I am more right than God'? ³ For you ask, ‘What will You get by it? How will it be better for me than if I had sinned?' ⁴ I will answer you, and your friends with you. ⁵ Look at the heavens and see. See the clouds which are higher than you. ⁶ If you have sinned, what does that do to God? If you have done many wrongs, what does that do to Him? ⁷ If you are right and good, what do you give to Him? What does He receive from you? ⁸ Your wrong-doing may hurt another man and your being right and good may help him.

⁹ "People cry out because of their many hard times. They cry for help because of the arm of the powerful. ¹⁰ But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, ¹¹ Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' ¹² There they cry out, but He does not answer because of the pride of sinful men. ¹³ For sure God will not listen to an empty cry. The All-powerful will not do anything about it. ¹⁴ How much less when you say you do not see Him, that your trial is before Him, and you must wait for Him! ¹⁵ And now, because God has not punished in His anger, and does not watch for sin, ¹⁶ Job opens his mouth with empty talk. He speaks many words without much learning."