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¹Moreover Elihu continued, saying,

²“Do you think this is just when you say, 'My right before God'?

³For you ask, 'What use is it to me?' and, 'Would I be better off if I had sinned?'

⁴I will answer you, both you and your friends.

⁵Look up at the sky, and see it; see the sky, which is higher than you.

⁶If you have sinned, what harm do you do to God? If your transgressions pile up high, what do you do to him?

⁷If you are righteous, what can you give to him? What will he receive from your hand?

⁸Your wickedness may hurt a man, as you are a man, and your righteousness might benefit another son of man.

⁹Because of many acts of oppression, people cry out; they call for help from the arms of mighty men.

¹⁰But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

¹¹who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth, and who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

¹²There they cry out, but God gives no answer because of the pride of evil men.

¹³God will certainly not hear a foolish cry; the Almighty will pay no attention to it.

¹⁴How much less will he answer you if you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him, and that you are waiting for him!

¹⁵Now you say that his anger does not punish, and he does not take even a litte notice of transgression.

¹⁶So Job opens his mouth only to speak foolishness; he piles up words without knowledge.”