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Elihu continued his speech. He said:
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Do you think you can prove yourself upright and establish your uprightness before God
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by daring to say to him, 'What does it matter to you, or how does it benefit me, whether I have sinned or not?'
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Very well, I shall tell you and your friends as well.
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Take a look at the skies and see, observe how high the clouds are above you.
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If you sin, how can you affect him? If you heap up crimes, what effect has it on him?
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If you are upright, what do you give him, what benefit does he receive at your hands?
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Your wickedness affects only your fellows, your uprightness, other human beings.
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They too groan under the weight of oppression, they cry for help under the tyranny of the mighty,
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but none of them thinks of saying, 'Where is God, my Maker, who makes glad songs ring out at night,
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who has made us more intelligent than wild animals wiser than birds in the sky?'
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Cry they may, but get no answer, to be spared from the arrogance of the wicked.
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Of course God does not listen to trivialities, Shaddai pays no attention to them.
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And how much less when you say, 'I cannot see him, my case is open and I am waiting for him.'
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Or, 'His anger never punishes, he does not seem aware of human rebellion.'
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Hence, when Job speaks, he talks nonsense, ignorantly babbling on and on.
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