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| 1 Moreover Elihu answered and said, |
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| 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than *God's? |
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| 3 For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? |
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| 4 I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. |
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| 5 Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. |
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| 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? |
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| 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? |
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| 8 Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man. |
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| 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: |
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| 10 But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night, |
Songs In the night – Even in this night-time the Lord's people do not need to sorrow as others who have no hope. "He hath put a new song into our mouths." (Psa. 40:3) R3123:3
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| 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens? |
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| 12 There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men. |
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| 13 Surely *God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. |
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| 14 Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him. |
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| 15 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy? |
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| 16 For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge. |
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