1.4 KiB
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
Chapter 35
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Then Elihu said:
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"Do you think it is right for you to claim,
'I am righteous before God'?
- For you also ask, 'What's in it for me?
What's the use of living a righteous life?'
- "I will answer you
and all your friends, too.
- Look up into the sky,
and see the clouds high above you.
- If you sin, how does that affect God?
Even if you sin again and again,
what effect will it have on him?
- If you are good, is this some great gift to him?
What could you possibly give him?
- No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
- "People cry out when they are oppressed.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
- Yet they don't ask, 'Where is God my Creator,
the one who gives songs in the night?
- Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
and wiser than the birds of the sky?'
- And when they cry out, God does not answer
because of their pride.
- But it is wrong to say God doesn't listen,
to say the Almighty isn't concerned.
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You say you can't see him, but he will bring justice if you will only wait.
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You say he does not respond to sinners with anger and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.
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But you are talking nonsense, Job.
You have spoken like a fool."