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And Elihu answered and said, Do you think this to be right, you that
say, I am more just than God? For you say, What will it benefit you? And,
What good shall I have more than if I had sinned? I will answer your words,
and your friends with you. Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the
clouds; they are higher than you. If you sin, what do you do against Him?
Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? If you
are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your
hand? Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness
may profit the son of man. From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they
cry out because of the arm of the multitude. But none says, Where is God
my Maker, who gives songs in the night; who teaches us more than the animals
of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens? There they
cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers. Surely
God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look on it. How much
less when you say you do not see Him! Judgment is before Him; you are waiting
for Him. And now, because His anger has not visited, and He does not recognize
stupidity, even Job opens his mouth in vanity; he multiplies words without
knowledge.
Elihu went on and said, Wait for me a little, and I will show
you that there are yet words for God. I will bring my knowledge from afar,
and I will credit righteousness to my Maker. For truly my words are not
false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you. Behold, God is mighty,
and does not despise; He is mighty in strength of heart. He will not keep
alive one who is wicked, but gives right to the afflicted. He withdraws
not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne;
yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high. And if they
are bound in chains, and are held in cords of affliction, then He shows
them their work, and their sins, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
He also opens their ears to teaching, and commands that they return from
iniquity. If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness,
and their years in pleasures. But if they do not obey, they shall perish
by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. But the ungodly in
heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them. Their soul dies in
youth, and their life ends among the sodomites. He delivers the poor in
his affliction, and opens their ears by oppression. And He also would have
lured you from the mouth of distress to a wide place not cramped; and the
setting of your table would be full of fatness. But you have fulfilled
the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold; For beware
wrath, that He not lure you with His scorn; then a great ransom cannot
turn you aside. If your cry for help is set in order, then it will not
be. in distress, but with all the forces of strength. Desire not the night,
when people are cut off in their place. Beware, do not turn to iniquity;
for this you have chosen rather than affliction. Behold, God is exalted
in His power; who teaches like Him? Who has appointed Him His way; or who
can say, You have done wrong? Remember that you magnify His work of which
men have sung; every man has seen it; man may see it afar off. Behold,
God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched
out. For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist, which
the clouds pour down and drop on man plentifully. Also can any understand
the spreading of the clouds, or the crashing of His canopy? Behold, He
spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea. For by them
He judges the people; He gives plenty of food. He covers His hands with
the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark; its thunder declares
concerning Him, and the cattle, concerning what is coming.
(Job 35 & 36)
prophet Jonah
end of the gospel of John
ezekiel 47
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