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Job 35

1 Elihu proceeded in his reasoning and said,

1 Then Elihu said:

2 Dost thou think this to be right, when thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?

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

3 For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

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

4 I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.

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

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

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

6 If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or if thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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

7 If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?

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

8 Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.

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

9 By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.

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

10 But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives 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 the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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 shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

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

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.

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

14 For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in 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 he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;

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

16 therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.

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