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Job 35

New Living Translation NLT

1 Then Elihu said:

2 “Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?

3 For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me? What’s the use of living a righteous life?’

4 “I will answer you and all your friends, too.

5 Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.

6 If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?

7 If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him?

8 No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.

9 “People cry out when they are oppressed. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.

10 Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?

11 Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals and wiser than the birds of the sky?’

12 And when they cry out, God does not answer because of their pride.

13 But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen, to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.

14 You say you can’t see him, but he will bring justice if you will only wait.

15 You say he does not respond to sinners with anger and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.

16 But you are talking nonsense, Job. You have spoken like a fool.”

Common English Bible CEB

1 Elihu continued:

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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

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