Chapter 35
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Moreover Elihu answered,
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"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
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That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
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I will answer you, and your companions with you.
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Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
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If you have sinned, what effect do you have against her? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to her?
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If you are righteous, what do you give her? Or what does she receive from your hand?
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Your wickedness may hurt a woman as you are, and your righteousness may profit a daughter of woman.
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"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
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There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil women.
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Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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How much less when you say you don't see her. The cause is before her, and you wait for her!
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But now, because she has not visited in her anger, neither does she greatly regard arrogance.
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Therefore Job opens her mouth with empty talk, and she multiplies words without knowledge."