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Do you think it right to say,
    “I am in the right, not God”?(A)
When you ask what it profits you,
    “What advantage do I have from not sinning?”(B)
I have words for a reply to you[a]
    and your friends as well.

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Footnotes

  1. 35:4 A reply to you: Elihu refers to Job’s statement that the innocent suffer as much as the wicked, and especially to Eliphaz’s words in 22:2–3.

“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)

“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or you