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1. Then Elihu answered:
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1. Elihu H453 spoke H6030 moreover , and said H559 ,
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2. "Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'
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2. Thinkest H2803 thou this H2063 to be right H4941 , that thou saidst H559 , My righteousness H6664 is more than God H4480 H410 's?
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3. But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?'
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3. For H3588 thou saidst H559 , What H4100 advantage H5532 will it be unto thee? and , What H4100 profit H3276 shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin H4480 H2403 ?
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4. I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
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4. I H589 will answer H7725 H4405 thee , and thy companions H7453 with H5973 thee.
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5. Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
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5. Look H5027 unto the heavens H8064 , and see H7200 ; and behold H7789 the clouds H7834 which are higher H1361 than H4480 thou.
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6. If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
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6. If H518 thou sinnest H2398 , what H4100 doest H6466 thou against him? or if thy transgressions H6588 be multiplied H7231 , what H4100 doest H6213 thou unto him?
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7. If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?
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7. If H518 thou be righteous H6663 , what H4100 givest H5414 thou him? or H176 what H4100 receiveth H3947 he of thine hand H4480 H3027 ?
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8. Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
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8. Thy wickedness H7562 may hurt a man H376 as thou H3644 art ; and thy righteousness H6666 may profit the son H1121 of man H120 .
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9. "People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.
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9. By reason of the multitude H4480 H7230 of oppressions H6217 they make the oppressed to cry H2199 : they cry out H7768 by reason of the arm H4480 H2220 of the mighty H7227 .
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10. But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
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10. But none H3808 saith H559 , Where H346 is God H433 my maker H6213 , who giveth H5414 songs H2158 in the night H3915 ;
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11. who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
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11. Who teacheth H502 us more than the beasts H4480 H929 of the earth H776 , and maketh us wiser H2449 than the fowls H4480 H5775 of heaven H8064 ?
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12. Then they cry out� but he does not answer� because of the arrogance of the wicked.
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12. There H8033 they cry H6817 , but none H3808 giveth answer H6030 , because H4480 H6440 of the pride H1347 of evil men H7451 .
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13. Surely it is an empty cry� God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.
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13. Surely H389 God H410 will not H3808 hear H8085 vanity H7723 , neither H3808 will the Almighty H7706 regard H7789 it.
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14. How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!
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14. Although H637 H3588 thou sayest H559 thou shalt not H3808 see H7789 him, yet judgment H1779 is before H6440 him ; therefore trust H2342 thou in him.
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15. And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!
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15. But now H6258 , because H3588 it is not H369 so , he hath visited H6485 in his anger H639 ; yet he knoweth H3045 it not H3808 in great H3966 extremity H6580 :
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16. So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words."
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16. Therefore doth Job H347 open H6475 his mouth H6310 in vain H1892 ; he multiplieth H3527 words H4405 without H1097 knowledge H1847 .
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