| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. | | The Book of Job | | 35 |
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Eli'hu spake moreover, and said,
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Thinkest thou this to be right,
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that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? |
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For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee?
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and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? |
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I will answer thee,
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and thy companions with thee. |
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Look unto the heavens, and see;
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and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. |
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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him?
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Or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? |
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If thou be righteous, what givest thou him?
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Or what receiveth he of thine hand? |
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Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art;
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and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. Job. 22.2, 3 |
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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry:
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they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. |
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But none saith, Where is God my maker,
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who giveth songs in the night; |
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who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,
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and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? |
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There they cry, but none giveth answer,
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because of the pride of evil men. |
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Surely God will not hear vanity,
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neither will the Almighty regard it. |
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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him,
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yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. |
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But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger;
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yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: |
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therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain;
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he multiplieth words without knowledge. |
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