1 | Moreover Elihu answered, |
2 | "Do you think this to be your right, Or do you say, `My righteousness is more than God`s,` | Mt 12:36 Mt 12:37 Lk 19:22 |
3 | That you ask, `What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?` | Jb 9:21 Jb 9:22 Jb 10:15 Jb 21:15 Jb 31:2 Jb 34:9 Ps 73:13 Mal 3:14 |
4 | I will answer you, And your companions with you. | Jb 34:8 Pr 13:20 |
5 | Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. | Jb 22:12 Jb 25:5 Jb 25:6 Jb 36:26-33 Jb 37:1-5 Jb 37:22-5 Jb 37:23-5 1Ki 8:27 Ps 8:3 Ps 8:4 Isa 40:22 Isa 40:23 Isa 55:9 |
6 | If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? | Pr 8:36 Pr 9:12 Jer 7:19 |
7 | If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand? | Jb 22:2 Jb 22:3 1Ch 29:14 Ps 16:2 Pr 9:12 Ro 11:35 |
8 | Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man. | Jsh 7:1-5 Jsh 22:20 Ec 9:18 Jon 1:12 |
9 | "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. | Jb 24:12 Jb 34:28 Ex 2:23 Ex 3:7 Ex 3:9 Ne 5:1-5 Ps 12:5 Ps 43:2 Ps 55:2 Ps 55:3 Ps 56:1 Ps 56:2 Lk 18:3-7 |
10 | But none says, `Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, | Jb 36:13 1Ch 10:13 1Ch 10:14 2Ch 28:22 2Ch 28:23 Isa 8:21 |
11 | Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?` | Jb 32:8 Gn 1:26 Gn 2:7 Ps 94:12 |
12 | There they cry, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men. | Ps 18:41 Pr 1:28 Jn 9:31 |
13 | Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it. | Jb 22:22-27 Jb 27:8 Jb 27:9 Pr 15:8 Pr 15:29 Pr 28:9 Ec 5:1-3 Isa 1:15 Jer 11:11 Hos 7:14 Hos 8:2 Hos 8:3 Mt 6:7 Mt 20:21 Mt 20:22 Jm 4:3 |
14 | How much less when you say you don`t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him! | Jb 9:11 Jb 23:3 Jb 23:8-10 |
15 | But now, because he has not visited in his anger, Neither does he greatly regard arrogance. | Jb 9:14 Jb 13:15 Nm 20:12 Lk 1:20 |
16 | Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge." | Jb 3:1 Jb 33:2 Jb 33:8-12 Jb 34:35-37 Jb 38:2 |