Chapter 35

Eliu pretending that Job had said God to be unjust, sheweth that man's piety nor impiety neither profiteth nor disprofiteth God: ℣.13 and that he judgeth all things rightly.

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   Therefore Eliu again spake these words:

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   that thou saidst: I am juster than God? Doth thy cogitation seem just to thee,

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   For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

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   Therefore will I answer to thy words, and to thy friends with thee.

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   Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thou.

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   If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? And if thine iniquities be multiplied, what shall thou do against him?

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   Moreover if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

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   Man that is like to thee, thy impiety shall hurt: and thy justice shall help the son of man.

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   Because of the multitude of calumniators they shall cry: and shall wail for the force of the arm of tyrants.

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    And he hath not said: Where is God, that made me, that hath given songs in the night?

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    Who teacheth us above the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us above the fowls of the air.

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    There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of the evil.

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    God therefore will not hear without cause, and the Omnipotent will behold the causes of every one.

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    Yea when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.

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    For he doth not now infer his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

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    Therefore Job in vain openeth his mouth, and without knowledge multiplieth words.