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Elihu Sharply Reproves Job | ||||
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| 1 Then Elihu continued and said, | 1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, | 1 Elihu continued to speak [to Job and his friends], | 1 Moreover Elihu answered, | 1 Moreover Elihu answered and said, | 2 "Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's '? | 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? | 2 "Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,' | 2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,' | 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than �God's? | 3 "For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?' | 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? | 3 when you ask, 'What benefit is it to you?' and, 'What would I gain by sinning?' | 3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' | 3 For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? | 4 "I will answer you, And your friends with you. | 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. | 4 I will answer you and your friends. | 4 I will answer you, and your companions with you. | 4 I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. | 5 "Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- they are higher than you. | 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. | 5 "Look at the heavens and see. Observe the clouds high above you. | 5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. | 5 Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 6 "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him? | 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? | 6 If you've sinned, what effect can you have on God? If you've done many wrongs, what can you do to him? | 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? | 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? | 7 "If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand? | 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? | 7 If you're righteous, what can you give him, or what can he get from you? | 7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand? | 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? | 8 "Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man. | 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. | 8 Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself. Your righteousness affects only the descendants of Adam. | 8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man. | 8 Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man. | 9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. | 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. | 9 The weight of oppression makes them cry out. The power of mighty people makes them call for help. | 9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. | 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: | 10 "But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, | 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; | 10 But no one asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who inspires songs in the night, | 10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, | 10 But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night, | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' | 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? | 11 who teaches us more than he teaches the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?' | 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?' | 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens? | 12 "There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men. | 12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. | 12 Then they cry out, but he doesn't answer them because of the arrogance of [those] evil people. | 12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. | 12 There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men. | 13 "Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it. | 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. | 13 "Surely, God doesn't listen to idle complaints. The Almighty doesn't even pay attention to them. | 13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it. | 13 Surely �God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. | 14 "How much less when you say you do not behold Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him! | 14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. | 14 Although you say that you pay attention to him, your case is in front of him, but you'll have to wait for him. | 14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him! | 14 Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him. | 15 "And now, because He has not visited in His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression well, | 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: | 15 And now [you say] that his anger doesn't punish [anyone] and he isn't too concerned about evil. | 15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance. | 15 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy? | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 16 So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge." | 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. | 16 Job opens his mouth for no good reason and talks a lot without having any knowledge." | 16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge." | 16 For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge. |
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