Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
And
Elihu went
on
to
say:
Elihu spake
moreover,
and
said,
“Do
you
think
this is
just?
You
say
, ‘I
am
more righteous
than God.’
Thinkest
thou
this to
be
right
, that
thou
saidst,
My
righteousness
is
more than God's?
For you
ask
, ‘
What does
it profit
me,
and what benefit
do
I gain
apart
from sin? ’
For thou
saidst
, What advantage
will
it be
unto
thee?
and ,
What profit
shall
I have,
if
I
be
cleansed
from my
sin?
I will reply
to
you
and to
your
friends
as
well
.
I will answer
thee,
and thy
companions
with
thee
.
Look to
the heavens and see; gaze
at
the clouds high
above
you
.
Look unto
the heavens ,
and see; and
behold
the clouds which
are
higher
than
thou
.
If you
sin
, what do
you
accomplish
against Him? If you
multiply
your
transgressions, what do
you
do
to
Him?
If thou
sinnest
, what doest
thou
against him? or
if thy
transgressions be
multiplied
, what doest
thou
unto
him?
If you
are
righteous, what do
you
give
Him ,
or what does
He receive
from
your
hand?
If thou
be
righteous, what givest
thou
him ?
or what receiveth
he of
thine
hand?
Your
wickedness affects
only
a man like
yourself,
and your
righteousness only
a
son of man.
Thy
wickedness may
hurt
a man as
thou
art;
and thy
righteousness may
profit
the
son of man.
Men
cry out
under
great
oppression;
they plead
for
relief
from
the arm of the mighty.
By
reason
of
the
multitude
of
oppressions
they
make
the
oppressed
to
cry :
they cry
out
by
reason
of
the arm of the mighty.
But no
one
asks
, ‘
Where is God my Maker, who gives
us
songs in the night ,
But none
saith
, Where is God my maker, who giveth
songs in the night ;
who teaches
us more than the beasts of the earth and makes
us wiser than the birds
of the
air
? ’
Who teacheth
us more than the beasts of the earth ,
and maketh
us wiser than the fowls
of heaven
?
There they cry out
, but He
does
not
answer, because of the pride of evil men.
There they cry, but none
giveth
answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Surely God does
not listen
to
empty
pleas
, and
the Almighty does
not
take
note
of
it.
Surely God will
not hear
vanity
, neither
will
the Almighty regard
it.
How
much
less,
then,
when
you
say
that
you
do
not see Him, that
your
case
is before Him and
you
must
wait
for
Him ,
Although
thou
sayest
thou
shalt
not see him, yet
judgment
is before him ;
therefore
trust
thou
in
him .
and
further
, that
in His anger He has
not punished
or
taken
much
notice
of
folly!
But
now
, because
it
is
not
so,
he
hath
visited
in his anger ;
yet
he knoweth
it
not in
great
extremity:
So
Job opens
his mouth in vain and
multiplies
words without knowledge. ”
Therefore
doth
Job open
his mouth in vain ;
he
multiplieth
words without knowledge.
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