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Job 35

1 Elihu continued to speak [to Job and his friends],

1 Moreover Elihu answered and said:

2 "Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,'

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

3 when you ask, 'What benefit is it to you?' and, 'What would I gain by sinning?'

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

4 I will answer you and your friends.

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

5 "Look at the heavens and see. Observe the clouds high above you.

5 Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are higher than you.

6 If you've sinned, what effect can you have on God? If you've done many wrongs, what can you do 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're righteous, what can you give him, or what can he get from you?

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

8 Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself. Your righteousness affects only the descendants of Adam.

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

9 The weight of oppression makes them cry out. The power of mighty people makes them call for help.

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 asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who inspires 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 he teaches the animals of the earth, who 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 them because of the arrogance of [those] evil people.

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

13 "Surely, God doesn't listen to idle complaints. The Almighty doesn't even pay attention to them.

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

14 Although you say that you pay attention to him, your case is in front of him, but you'll have to wait for him.

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

15 And now [you say] that his anger doesn't punish [anyone] and he isn't too concerned about evil.

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

16 Job opens his mouth for no good reason and talks a lot without having any knowledge."

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