1Moreover Elihu answered,

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2"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

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Matthew 12:36, Matthew 12:37, Matthew 12:36, Matthew 12:37, Job 10:7

3That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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Job 34:9, Job 34:9, Job 9:30, Job 9:31, Job 21:15

4I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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Job 34:8, Proverbs 13:20, Job 34:8, Proverbs 13:20

5Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

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Job 22:12, Job 22:12, Isaiah 55:9, Nahum 1:3, Isaiah 55:9

6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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Jeremiah 7:19, Proverbs 8:36, Jeremiah 7:19, Proverbs 8:36, Proverbs 9:12

7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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Proverbs 9:12, Psalms 16:2, Job 22:2, Job 22:3, Luke 17:10

8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

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Psalms 106:23, Acts 27:24, Joshua 7:1, Joshua 7:5, Job 42:8

9"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:23, Job 34:28, Job 34:28, Exodus 3:9

10But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

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Psalms 42:8, Psalms 42:8, Psalms 149:5, Acts 16:25, Psalms 149:5

11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

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Psalms 94:12, Psalms 94:12, Job 32:8, Job 36:22, Job 32:8

12There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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Proverbs 1:28, John 9:31, Proverbs 1:28, John 9:31, Psalms 123:3

13Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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Proverbs 15:29, Proverbs 15:29, Jeremiah 11:11, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 11:11

14How much less when you say you do not see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

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Job 9:11, Job 9:11, Psalms 27:12, Psalms 27:14, Job 9:19

15But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

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Psalms 89:32, Psalms 89:32, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9, Job 13:15

16Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."

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Job 38:2, Job 38:2, Job 34:35, Job 34:37, Job 33:8