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Job 35

1 Elihu continued:

1 Moreover Elihu answered and said:

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

2 "Do you think this is right? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?

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

3 For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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

4 "I will answer you, And your companions with you.

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

5 Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are higher than 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 do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

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

7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

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

8 Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man.

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

9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.

10 But no one says, "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, makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?"

11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?'

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

12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil men.

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

13 Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

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

14 Although you say you do not see Him, Yet justice is before Him, and you must wait for Him.

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

15 And now, because He has not punished in His anger, Nor taken much notice of folly,

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

16 Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge."