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[1] AGAIN Elihu spoke, and said,
[2] Do you think you were justified in saying, I have been found blameless by God?
[3] If you have said it, what advantage will it be to you? And what should I gain if I should condemn you?
[4] I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.
[5] Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.
[6] If you sin, what difference does it make to him? And if your iniquities be multiplied, what does it matter to him?
[7] If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
[8] Your wickedness is to yourself; and your righteousness is to yourself
[9] Because of the multitude of oppressions men howl; and many cry out because of iniquity.
[10] And none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives counsel in the night,
[11] Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of the air?
[12] They cry, but he does not answer them,
[13] Because God does not hear the empty pride of evildoers, nor does he praise it
[14] Although you have said, I will not praise him, plead before him and supplicate before him.
[15] For now he does not punish with his anger; and he does not harm any soul.
[16] Therefore Job has spoken in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge
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