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Job 35:1
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And Elihu answereth and saith: --
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Job 35:2
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This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness [is] more than God's?'
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Job 35:3
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For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
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Job 35:4
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I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
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Job 35:5
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Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
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Job 35:6
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If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
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Job 35:7
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If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
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Job 35:8
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For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
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Job 35:9
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Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
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Job 35:10
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And none said, `Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,
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Job 35:11
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Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
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Job 35:12
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There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.
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Job 35:13
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Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
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Job 35:14
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Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.
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Job 35:15
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And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.
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Job 35:16
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And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
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