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Job 35

1 Then Elihu said:

1 Elihu went on to say:

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

2 "Are you so convinced you are right, that you say, 'I am more just than God'?

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

3 For you ask what advantage it is to you, 'How do I gain from not sinning?'

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

4 "Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:

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

5 Look at the heavens and see; observe the skies, high above you.

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

6 If you sin, how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many, how do you affect 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? What benefit does he get from you?

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

8 Your wickedness can affect only others like you, and your righteousness only other 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 from under many oppressions; they cry for help from under the fist of the mighty.

10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

10 But no one asks, 'Where is God my maker, who causes glad songs to ring out at 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 he teaches wild animals and makes us wiser than the birds in the air?'

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

12 They may cry out, but no one answers, because of evil men's pride.

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

13 For God will not listen to empty cries; Shaddai pays no attention to them.

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 All the more when you say that you don't see him! Just be patient; he's considering the matter.

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

15 But now, just because he doesn't get angry and punish, does it mean he doesn't know what arrogance is?

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

16 So Iyov is being futile when he opens his mouth; he is piling up words without knowledge."