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The Book of Job, Chapter 35
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Elihu spake moreover, and said,
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Thinkest thou this to beright, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
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For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit
shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
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I will answer thee,
and thy companions with thee.
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Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are
higher than thou.
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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy
transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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If thou
be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine
hand?
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Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy
righteousness may profit the son of man.
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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed
to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the
night;
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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and
maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
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There they cry, but
none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
regard it.
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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is
before him; therefore trust thou in him.
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But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet
he knoweth it not in great extremity:
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Therefore doth Job open
his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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