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Job 35

1 Then Elihu said:

1 Elihu continued:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 If you've sinned, how have you affected God? Your offenses have multiplied; what have you done 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 to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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

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

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

9 People cry out because of heavy oppression; shout under the power 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 he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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