Job 35:1-6

1 Then Elihu continued, saying:
2 Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"?
3 For you ask, "What does it profit You,[a] and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"[b]
4 I will answer you and your friends with you.
5 Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.[c]
6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

Job 35:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 35

Is this chapter Elihu goes on to charge Job with other unbecoming speeches, which he undertakes to refute; as that he had represented his cause more just than God's, and religion and righteousness as things unprofitable to men, only to God; to which Elihu takes upon him to make answer, Job 35:1-8; and that the cries of the oppressed were not heard by the Lord, so as to give occasion to songs of praise and thankfulness, to which he replies, Job 35:9-13; and that Job had expressed diffidence and despair of ever seeing and enjoying the favour of God, which he endeavours to remove, Job 35:14-16.

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