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Elihu Reminds Job of God’s Justice
Then Elihu said:
Then Elihu said:
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
Moreover Elihu answered and said,
Moreover Elihu answered and said,
“Do you think it is right for you to claim,
‘I am righteous before God’?
‘I am righteous before God’?
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
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?’
For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?
“I will answer you
and all your friends, too.
and all your friends, too.
I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
Look up into the sky,
and see the clouds high above you.
and see the clouds high above you.
Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
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 sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
If you are good, is this some great gift to him?
What could you possibly give him?
What could you possibly give him?
If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
“People cry out when they are oppressed.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:
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?
But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,
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?’
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
And when they cry out, God does not answer
because of their pride.
because of their pride.
There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.
But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen,
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.
But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?