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And Elihu made answer and said,

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Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,JOB:27:2

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What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?JOB:34:9
JOB:7:20
JOB:9:30-31

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I will make answer to you and to your friends:

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Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.GEN:15:5
JOB:11:8
PS:8:3
JOB:22:12

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If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?JOB:7:20
PRO:8:36
JER:7:19

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If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?JOB:22:3
ROM:11:35
LUK:17:10
JOB:22:2
PRO:9:12

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Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

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Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.ECC:4:1
DEU:24:15
EXO:2:23
EXO:22:23
JOB:12:19
JOB:34:28
JOB:20:19

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But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;PS:42:8
JOB:8:21
ISA:51:13
JOB:36:13
JOB:4:17
PS:149:5
PS:77:6
JOB:27:10
JOB:21:14
ACT:16:25

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Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?JOB:21:22
JER:32:33
JOB:36:22
PS:94:12

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There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.PRO:1:28

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But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;JOB:15:31
JER:11:11
JOB:22:13
JOB:27:9
PRO:15:29

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How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.JOB:23:8
JOB:9:11
JOB:31:35

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And now ... ;ECC:8:11

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And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.JOB:38:2
JOB:34:35