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Job 35

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And Eli'hu said:

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"Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'

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that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'

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I will answer you and your friends with you.

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Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

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If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?

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Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

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"Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because 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 beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'

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There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

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How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

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And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,

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Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."

Job 36

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And Eli'hu continued, and said:

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"Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

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I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

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"Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

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He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

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He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.

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And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,

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then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

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He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

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If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

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But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.

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"The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

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They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.

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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.

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He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

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"But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.

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Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

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Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?

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Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

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Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

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Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

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Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, 'Thou hast done wrong'?

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"Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

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All men have looked on it; man beholds it from afar.

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Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

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For he draws up the drops of water, he distils his mist in rain

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which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.

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Can any one understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

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Behold, he scatters his lightning about him, and covers the roots of the sea.

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For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

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He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

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Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.

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