Job 35:1-6

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

2 "Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,'

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

4 I will answer you and your friends.

5 "Look at the heavens and see. Observe the clouds 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?

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.