Book - Job - Chapter = 35 --> NLT
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Then Elihu said:
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"Do you think it is right for you to claim, `I am righteous before God'?
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Yet you also ask, `What's the use of living a righteous life? How will it benefit me?'
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"I will answer you and all your friends, too.
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Look up into the sky and see the clouds high above you.
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If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?
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If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him?
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No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds affect only other people.
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"The oppressed cry out beneath the wrongs that are done to them. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
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Yet they don't ask, `Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?
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Where is the one who makes us wiser than the animals and birds?'
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"And if they do cry out and God does not answer, it is because of their pride.
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But it is wrong to say God doesn't listen, to say the Almighty isn't concerned.
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And it is even more false to say he doesn't see what is going on. He will bring about justice if you will only wait.
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But do you cry out against him because he does not respond in anger?
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Job, you have protested in vain. You have spoken like a fool."