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Job 35:1-10

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

1 Then Elihu 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 just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

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

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

4 I will answer you and your friends.

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

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

5 Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above 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, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that 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 to 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 only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

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

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

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,