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Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Justice
Then Elihu said:
Then Elihu said:
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
“Do you think it is right for you to claim,
‘I am righteous before God’?
‘I am righteous before God’?
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me?
What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Look up into the sky,
and see the clouds high above you.
and see the clouds high above you.
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
If you sin, how does that affect God?
Even if you sin again and again,
what effect will it have on him?
Even if you sin again and again,
what effect will it have on him?
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
If you are good, is this some great gift to him?
What could you possibly give him?
What could you possibly give him?
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
“People cry out when they are oppressed.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator,
the one who gives songs in the night?
the one who gives songs in the night?
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
and wiser than the birds of the sky?’
and wiser than the birds of the sky?’
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
And when they cry out, God does not answer
because of their pride.
because of their pride.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen,
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: