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Job 35

1 Elihu continued to speak [to Job and his friends],

1 Then Elihu said:

2 "Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,'

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

3 when you ask, 'What benefit is it to you?' and, 'What would I gain by sinning?'

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.

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

5 "Look at the heavens and see. Observe the clouds high above you.

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

6 If you've sinned, what effect can you have on God? If you've done many wrongs, what can you 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're righteous, what can you give him, or what can he get from you?

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

8 Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself. Your righteousness affects only the descendants of Adam.

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

9 The weight of oppression makes them cry out. The power of mighty people makes them call for help.

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 Creator, who inspires songs in the night,

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

11 who teaches us more than he teaches the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds in 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 Then they cry out, but he doesn't answer them because of the arrogance of [those] evil people.

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

13 "Surely, God doesn't listen to idle complaints. The Almighty doesn't even pay attention to them.

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

14 Although you say that you pay attention to him, your case is in front of him, but you'll have to wait 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 And now [you say] that his anger doesn't punish [anyone] and he isn't too concerned about evil.

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

16 Job opens his mouth for no good reason and talks a lot without having any knowledge."

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