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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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1Moreover Elihu answered,
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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 to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
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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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3That you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
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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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4I will answer you, and your companions 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 to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than 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 have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you 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 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 may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
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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“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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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 the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of 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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12There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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13There's nothing behind such prayers except panic;the Almighty pays them no mind.
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13Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard 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 when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you 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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15But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
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16"Job, you talk sheer nonsense—nonstop nonsense!"
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16Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”