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		Job 35:1 Elihu continued speaking [to Job] and said,
		Job 35:2 "Do you think this is according to [your] justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?
		Job 35:3 "For you say, 'What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]? What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?'
		Job 35:4 "I will answer you, And your companions with you.
		Job 35:5 "Look to the heavens and see; And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.
		Job 35:6 "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?
		Job 35:7 "If you are righteous, what do you give God, Or what does He receive from your hand?
		Job 35:8 "Your wickedness affects only a man such as you, And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].
		Job 35:9 ¶ "Because of the multitudes of oppressions the people cry out; They cry for help because of the [violent] arm of the mighty.
		Job 35:10 "But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs [of rejoicing] in the night, [Acts 16:25]
		Job 35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
		Job 35:12 "The people cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men.
		Job 35:13 "Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust], Nor will the Almighty regard it.
		Job 35:14 "Even though you say that you do not see Him [when missing His righteous judgment on earth], Yet your case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!
		Job 35:15 "And now, because He has not [quickly] punished in His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression and arrogance well [and seems unaware of the wrong of which a person is guilty],
		Job 35:16 Job uselessly opens his mouth And multiplies words without knowledge [drawing the worthless conclusion that the righteous have no more advantage than the wicked]."

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