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✭Elihu continued speaking and said,2 📚“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s✭.’
3 📚For you say, ‘What advantage would it be to you✭, what benefit would I have, if I refrained from sinning?’
4 📚✭“I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 📚Look at the heavens and see, and gaze at the clouds which are higher than you.
6 📚If you sin, what are you doing to him? Or if your transgressions are increased, what are you doing to him?
7 📚If you are righteous, what are you giving him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 📚Your wickedness hurts a man like yourself, and your righteousness helps only a son of man.
9 📚✭“The people cry out because of the many acts of oppression; they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.
10 📚But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 📚Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12 📚There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 📚Certainly God will not listen to an empty cry; the Almighty will not pay attention to it.
14 📚Although you say you do not see him, yet the case for judgment is before him, and you must wait for him.
15 📚But now, because he has not punished in his anger, in his great extremity Job does not understand.
16 📚Therefore Job opens his mouth for empty talk. He multiplies words without knowledge”.