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Elihu spake moreover, and said,

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Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

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For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

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I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

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Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

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Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

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But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

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Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.