Moreover Elihu answered,
“Do you think this to be your right, Mat 12:36-37Job 10:7Job 16:17Job 19:6-7Job 27:2-6Job 34:5Job 40:8Job 9:17
or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? Job 34:9Mal 3:14Job 10:15Job 21:15Job 31:2Job 9:21-22Job 9:30-31Psa 73:13
What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
I will answer you, Job 34:8Pro 13:20
and your companions with you.
Look to the skies, and see. Job 22:12Isa 55:9Isa 40:22-23Nam 1:31Ki 8:27Gen 15:5Job 25:5-6Job 36:26
See the skies, which are higher than you.
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? Jer 7:19Pro 8:36Pro 9:12
If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If you are righteous, what do you give him? Job 22:2-3Psa 16:2Luk 17:10Pro 9:12Rom 11:351Ch 29:14
Or what does he receive from your hand?
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, Act 27:24Ecc 9:18Ezk 22:30Gen 12:2Gen 18:24-33Gen 19:29Heb 11:7Job 42:8
and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. Exo 2:23Job 34:28Exo 3:7Exo 3:9Job 12:19Job 24:12Job 40:9Luk 18:3-7
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Psa 42:8Act 16:25Psa 149:5Psa 77:6Isa 51:131Pe 4:19Ecc 12:1Isa 54:5
who gives songs in the night,
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, Psa 94:12Job 32:8Job 36:22Gen 1:26Gen 2:7
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
There they cry, but no one answers, Jhn 9:31Pro 1:28Psa 123:3-4Isa 14:14-17Psa 18:41Psa 73:6-8
because of the pride of evil men.
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Pro 15:29Isa 1:15Jas 4:3Jer 11:11Pro 15:8Amo 5:22Ecc 5:1-3Hos 7:14
neither will the Almighty regard it.
How much less when you say you don’t see him. Job 9:11Isa 30:18Isa 50:10Isa 54:17Job 19:7Job 23:3Job 23:8-10Job 9:19
The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
But now, because he has not visited in his anger, Psa 89:32Heb 12:11-12Hos 11:8-9Job 13:15Job 30:15-31Job 4:5Job 9:14Luk 1:20
neither does he greatly regard arrogance,
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, Job 38:2Job 33:8-12Job 34:35-37Job 3:1Job 33:2
and he multiplies words without knowledge.”