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1 Then Elihu answered and said,
2 “Do you consider this just?
You say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God's.’
3 For you say, ‘What advantage is it to you?
What do I gain by not sinning?’
4 I will answer you, and your friends with you.
5 Look at the heavens and see;
behold the clouds, higher than you.
6 If you sin, what do you do to him?
If your transgressions multiply, what do you do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects a man like you, and your righteousness a son of man.
9 Because of many oppressions they cry out;
they call for help against the arm of the mighty.
10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
12 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God does not hear emptiness, nor does the Almighty regard it.
14 How much less when you say that you do not see him!
Your case is before him, so wait for him.
15 And now, because his anger has not punished and he has not taken much account of folly,
16 Job opens his mouth in emptiness;
he multiplies words without knowledge.”