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Elihu Continues
Are You Really Innocent?
35
1 Elihu said:
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1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
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2 Job, are you really innocent
in the sight of God?  c 35.2 are ... God: Or “is it right for you to accuse God?”
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2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
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3 Don't you honestly believe
it pays to obey him?
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3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? if...: or, by it more than by my sin
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4 I will give the answers
to you and your friends.
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4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. answer...: Heb. return to thee words
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5 Look up to the heavens
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5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
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6 and think! 
Do your sins hurt God?
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6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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7 Is any good you may have done
at all helpful to him?
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7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
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8 The evil or good you do
only affects other humans.
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8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
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9 In times of trouble,
everyone begs the mighty God
to have mercy.
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9 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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10 But after their Creator
helps them through hard times,
they forget about him,
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10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
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11 though he makes us wiser
than animals or birds.
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11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
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12 God won't listen to the prayers
of proud and evil people.
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12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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13 If God All-Powerful refuses
to answer their empty prayers,
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13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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14 he will surely deny
your impatient request
to face him in court.
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14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
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15 Job, you were wrong to say
God doesn't punish sin.
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15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: he hath: that is, God hath he knoweth: that is, Job knoweth
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16 Everything you have said
adds up to nonsense.
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16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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