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1Moreover, Elihu spoke up and said,[#Hebrew “And”; #Literally “answered”; see NET]
2“Do you think this is justice when you say,
‘I am right before God’?
3If you ask what it profits you:
‘How do I benefit by refraining from my sin?’
4I myself will give answer to you[#Emphatic personal pronoun; #Literally “will return you words”]
and to your friends with you.
5“Look at the heavens, and see;
and observe the clouds that are higher than you.
6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,
and your righteousness affects humans.
9“Because of the multitude of oppressions, they cry out;
they cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,[#Hebrew “And”]
who gives songs in the night,
11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
12There they cry out, but he does not answer[#Hebrew “and”]
because of the pride of evildoers.
13“Surely God does not hear an empty plea,
and Shaddai does not regard it.
14How much less when you say that you do not see him,[#Literally “Also for”]
that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
15But now, because his anger does not punish,[#Hebrew “And”]
and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,
16therefore Job opens his mouth in empty talk—[#Hebrew “and,” or “so”]
without knowledge he multiplies words.”