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Job 35

1 Then Elihu said:

1 Elihu lit into Job again:

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

2 "Does this kind of thing make any sense? First you say, 'I'm perfectly innocent before God.'

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

3 And then you say, 'It doesn't make a bit of difference whether I've sinned or not.'

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

4 "Well, I'm going to show you that you don't know what you're talking about, neither you nor your friends.

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

5 Look up at the sky. Take a long hard look. See those clouds towering 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, what difference could that make to God? No matter how much you sin, will it matter to him?

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

7 Even if you're good, what would God get out of that? Do you think he's dependent on your accomplishments?

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

8 The only ones who care whether you're good or bad are your family and friends and neighbors. God's not dependent on your behavior.

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

9 "When times get bad, people cry out for help. They cry for relief from being kicked around,

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

10 But never give God a thought when things go well, when God puts spontaneous songs in their hearts,

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

11 When God sets out the entire creation as a science classroom, using birds and beasts to teach wisdom.

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

12 People are arrogantly indifferent to God - until, of course, they're in trouble, and then God is indifferent to them.

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

13 There's nothing behind such prayers except panic; the Almighty pays them no mind.

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 So why would he notice you just because you say you're tired of waiting to be heard,

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

15 Or waiting for him to get good and angry and do something about the world's problems?

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

16 "Job, you talk sheer nonsense - nonstop nonsense!"