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I have words for a reply to you[a]
    and your friends as well.
Look up to the skies and see;
    behold the heavens high above you.
If you sin, what do you do to God?
    Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?

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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.

“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.
Look up at the heavens(A) and see;
    gaze at the clouds so high above you.(B)
If you sin, how does that affect him?
    If your sins are many, what does that do to him?(C)

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I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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