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Job 35

1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words:

1 Then Elihu said:

2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

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

3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

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

4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

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

5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

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

6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?

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

7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

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

8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

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

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

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

10 And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

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

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls 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 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.

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

13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

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

14 Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect 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 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

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

16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

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

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