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36">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Elihu Continues</h5><h3 class="s1">Are You Really Innocent?</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.1" class="v18_35_1">1</span>Elihu said:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.2" class="v18_35_2">2</span>Job, are you really innocent</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_2">in the sight of God?<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.35.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.3" class="v18_35_3">3</span>Don't you honestly believe</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_3">it pays to obey him?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.4" class="v18_35_4">4</span>I will give the answers</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_4">to you and your friends.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_4">* </span><span class="v18_35_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.5" class="v18_35_5">5</span>Look up to the heavens</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.6" class="v18_35_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.35.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and think!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_6">Do your sins hurt God?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.7" class="v18_35_7">7</span>Is any good you may have done</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_7">at all helpful to him?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.8" class="v18_35_8">8</span>The evil or good you do</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_8">only affects other humans.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.9" class="v18_35_9">9</span>In times of trouble,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_9">everyone begs the mighty God</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_9">to have mercy.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.10" class="v18_35_10">10</span>But after their Creator</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_10">helps them through hard times,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_10">they forget about him,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.11" class="v18_35_11">11</span>though he makes us wiser</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_11">than animals or birds.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.12" class="v18_35_12">12</span>God won't listen to the prayers</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_12">of proud and evil people.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.13" class="v18_35_13">13</span>If God All-Powerful refuses</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_13">to answer their empty prayers,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.14" class="v18_35_14">14</span>he will surely deny</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_14">your impatient request</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_14">to face him in court.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.15" class="v18_35_15">15</span>Job, you were wrong to say</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_15">God doesn't punish sin.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_35_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.35.16" class="v18_35_16">16</span>Everything you have said</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_35_16">adds up to nonsense.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">35.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">are … God: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “is it right for you to accuse God?”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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