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Job 35
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God is not indifferent to what happens on earth
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Elihu continued his speech. He said:
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Do you presume to maintain that you are in the right, to insist on your innocence before God,
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even to ask him, ‘How does it affect you, what harm has it done you if I have sinned?’
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Well then, this is how I will answer you, and your friends as well.
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Look up at the skies, look at them well, and see how high the clouds are above you.
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If you sin, what do you achieve against him? If you heap up crimes, what is the injury you do him?
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If you are just, what do you give him, what benefit does he receive at your hands?
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Your fellow men are the ones to suffer from your crimes, humanity is the gainer if you are good.
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When people groan under the weight of oppression, or cry out under the tyranny of the mighty,
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no one thinks to ask, ‘Where is God, my maker, who makes glad songs ring out at dead of night,
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who makes us cleverer than the earth’s wild beasts, wiser than the birds in the sky?’
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Then they cry aloud, but he does not answer because of man’s base pride.
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How idle to maintain that God is deaf, that Shaddai notices nothing!
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You even claim, ‘He does not see me: my cause is exposed before him, and yet I wait and wait’.
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Or even, ‘His anger never punishes, he does not seem to know of men’s rebellion’.
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Hence when Job opens his mouth, it is for idle talk: his spate of words comes out of ignorance.
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