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Job 34

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 35
#### 1 | And Elihu made answer and said,
#### 2 | Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
#### 3 | What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
#### 4 | I will make answer to you and to your friends:
#### 5 | Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
#### 6 | If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
#### 7 | If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
#### 8 | Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
#### 9 | Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.
#### 10 | But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
#### 11 | Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
#### 12 | There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
#### 13 | But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
#### 14 | How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
#### 15 | And now ... ;
#### 16 | And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

Job 36

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