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Job 35

1 Then Elihu continued, saying:

1 And Elihu answered and said:

2 Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"?

2 “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God, ’

3 For you ask, "What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"

3 that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned? ’

4 I will answer you and your friends with you.

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

5 Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

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

8 Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [another] human being.

8 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

9 People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help from the arm of the mighty.

9 “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

10 But no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides [us] with songs in the night,

10 But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?"

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

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

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

13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty [cries], and the Almighty does not take note of it-

13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

14 how much less when you complain that you do not see Him, [that your] case is before Him and you are waiting for Him.

14 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

15 But now, because God's anger does not punish and He does not pay attention to transgression,

15 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,

16 Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.

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