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Job 35

1 Elihu continued:

1 Elihu lit into Job again:

2 Do you think it right? You say, "I'm more just than God."

2 "Does this kind of thing make any sense? First you say, 'I'm perfectly innocent before God.'

3 Yet you ask, "What does it benefit you? What have I gained by avoiding sin?"

3 And then you say, 'It doesn't make a bit of difference whether I've sinned or not.'

4 I'll answer you, and your friends along with you.

4 "Well, I'm going to show you that you don't know what you're talking about, neither you nor your friends.

5 Look at the heavens and see; scan the clouds high over you.

5 Look up at the sky. Take a long hard look. See those clouds towering above you?

6 If you've sinned, how have you affected God? Your offenses have multiplied; what have you done to him?

6 If you sin, what difference could that make to God? No matter how much you sin, will it matter to him?

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

7 Even if you're good, what would God get out of that? Do you think he's dependent on your accomplishments?

8 Your evil affects others like you, and your righteousness affects fellow human beings.

8 The only ones who care whether you're good or bad are your family and friends and neighbors. God's not dependent on your behavior.

9 People cry out because of heavy oppression; shout under the power of the mighty.

9 "When times get bad, people cry out for help. They cry for relief from being kicked around,

10 But no one says, "Where is God my maker; who gives songs in the night;

10 But never give God a thought when things go well, when God puts spontaneous songs in their hearts,

11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?"

11 When God sets out the entire creation as a science classroom, using birds and beasts to teach wisdom.

12 Then they cry out; but he doesn't answer, because of the pride of the wicked.

12 People are arrogantly indifferent to God - until, of course, they're in trouble, and then God is indifferent to them.

13 God certainly doesn't respond to a deceitful cry; the Almighty doesn't pay attention to it.

13 There's nothing behind such prayers except panic; the Almighty pays them no mind.

14 Although you say that you don't see him, the case is before him; so wait anxiously for him.

14 So why would he notice you just because you say you're tired of waiting to be heard,

15 Even though his anger is now held back, a person doesn't know it's only delayed.

15 Or waiting for him to get good and angry and do something about the world's problems?

16 So Job mouths emptiness; he piles up ignorant words.

16 "Job, you talk sheer nonsense - nonstop nonsense!"