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Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness

35 Elihu spoke again and said:

“Do you think this is right,
    that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?
For you said, ‘What advantage will it be to me?
    What profit will I have if I am cleansed from my sin?’

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35 Elihu spake moreover, and said,

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst,
My righteousness is more than God’s?
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee?
and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

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35 Then Elihu said:

“Do you think this is just?
    You say, ‘I am in the right,(A) not God.’(B)
Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or you