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Job 35

1 Then Elihu said:

2 "Do you think this is fair? You say, 'God will show that I am right,'

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

3 but you also ask, 'What's the use? I don't gain anything by not 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 who are with you.

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

5 Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.

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

6 If you sin, it does nothing to God; even if your sins are many, they do nothing 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 good, you give nothing to God; he receives nothing from your hand.

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

8 Your evil ways only hurt a man like yourself, and the good you do only helps other human beings.

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

9 "People cry out when they are in trouble; they beg for relief from powerful people.

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 gives us songs in the night,

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

11 who makes us smarter than the animals of the earth and wiser than the birds of the air?'

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

12 God does not answer evil people when they cry out, because the wicked are proud.

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

13 God does not listen to their useless begging; the Almighty pays no attention to them.

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

14 He will listen to you even less when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him, that you must 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 that his anger never punishes, and that he doesn't notice evil.

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

16 So Job is only speaking nonsense, saying many words without knowing what is true."

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