1 After this, Eliu again spoke in this way: 2 Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?” 3 For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?” 4 And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you. 5 Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you. 6 If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him? 7 Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand? 8 Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man. 9 Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants. 10 Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night, 11 who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?” 12 There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked. 13 Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case. 14 And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him. 15 For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly. 16 Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Matthew 12:36–37; Job 9:17; Job 34:5; Job 16:17; Job 19:6–7
- 3 Job 34:9; Malachi 3:14; Job 9:21–22; Psalm 73:13; Job 31:2
- 4 Job 34:8; Proverbs 13:20
- 5 Job 22:12; Isaiah 55:9; Nahum 1:3; Isaiah 40:22–23; Job 37:16
- 6 Jeremiah 7:19; Proverbs 8:36; Proverbs 9:12
- 7 Psalm 16:2; Job 22:2–3; Luke 17:10; Proverbs 9:12; Romans 11:35
- 8 Jonah 1:12; Psalm 106:30; Hebrews 11:7; Job 42:8; Genesis 12:2
- 9 Exodus 2:23; Job 34:28; Exodus 3:9; Psalm 12:5; Nehemiah 5:1–5
- 10 Psalm 42:8; Acts 16:25; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 77:6; Isaiah 51:13
- 11 Psalm 94:12; Job 36:22; Job 32:8; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7
- 12 Proverbs 1:28; John 9:31; Psalm 123:3–4; Isaiah 14:14–17; Psalm 73:6–8
- 13 Proverbs 15:29; James 4:3; Jeremiah 11:11; Isaiah 1:15; Proverbs 15:8
- 14 Job 9:11; Job 23:3; Isaiah 30:18; Job 9:19; Psalm 62:5
- 15 Psalm 89:32; Job 30:15–31; Hebrews 12:11–12; Job 13:15; Hosea 11:8–9
- 16 Job 38:2; Job 34:35–37; Job 33:8–12; Job 33:2; Job 3:1
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