¹Moreover Elihu answered and said, ²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than •God’s? ³For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? ⁴I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. ⁵Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. ⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? ⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? ⁸Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.

⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: ¹⁰But none saith, Where is †God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night, ¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens? ¹²There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³Surely •God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him. ¹⁵But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy? ¹⁶For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

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