Job 35:1-7

1 Then Elihu said:

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

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

4 "I will answer you and your friends who are with you.

5 Look up at the sky and see 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.

7 If you are good, you give nothing to God; he receives nothing from your hand.

Job 35:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 35

Is this chapter Elihu goes on to charge Job with other unbecoming speeches, which he undertakes to refute; as that he had represented his cause more just than God's, and religion and righteousness as things unprofitable to men, only to God; to which Elihu takes upon him to make answer, Job 35:1-8; and that the cries of the oppressed were not heard by the Lord, so as to give occasion to songs of praise and thankfulness, to which he replies, Job 35:9-13; and that Job had expressed diffidence and despair of ever seeing and enjoying the favour of God, which he endeavours to remove, Job 35:14-16.