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Jó 35 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
16 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1Elihu lit into Job again:
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1Then Elihu said:
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2"Does this kind of thing make any sense?First you say, 'I'm perfectly innocent before God.'
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2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
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3And then you say, 'It doesn't make a bit of differencewhether I've sinned or not.'
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3Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
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4"Well, I'm going to show youthat you don't know what you're talking about,neither you nor your friends.
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4“I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
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5Look up at the sky. Take a long hard look.See those clouds towering above you?
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5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
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6If you sin, what difference could that make to God?No matter how much you sin, will it matter to him?
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6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
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7Even if you're good, what would God get out of that?Do you think he's dependent on your accomplishments?
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7If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
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8The only ones who care whether you're good or badare your family and friends and neighbors.God's not dependent on your behavior.
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8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
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9"When times get bad, people cry out for help.They cry for relief from being kicked around,
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9“People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
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10But never give God a thought when things go well,when God puts spontaneous songs in their hearts,
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10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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11When God sets out the entire creation as a science classroom,using birds and beasts to teach wisdom.
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11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
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12People are arrogantly indifferent to God—until, of course, they're in trouble,and then God is indifferent to them.
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12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
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13There's nothing behind such prayers except panic;the Almighty pays them no mind.
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13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
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14So why would he notice youjust because you say you're tired of waiting to be heard,
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14How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
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15Or waiting for him to get good and angryand do something about the world's problems?
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15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
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16"Job, you talk sheer nonsense—nonstop nonsense!"
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16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”