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Job 35

1 Then Elihu continued, saying:

1 Then Elihu said:

2 Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"?

2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

3 For you ask, "What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"

3 Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,and what do I gain by not sinning?’

4 I will answer you and your friends with you.

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

5 Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

5 Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

6 If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

8 Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [another] human being.

8 Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

9 People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help from the arm of the mighty.

9 “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

10 But no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides [us] with songs in the night,

10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?"

11 who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’

12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

12 He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty [cries], and the Almighty does not take note of it-

13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.

14 how much less when you complain that you do not see Him, [that your] case is before Him and you are waiting for Him.

14 How 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,

15 But now, because God's anger does not punish and He does not pay attention to transgression,

15 and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.

16 Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.

16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”