Job 35:3-13

3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
4 I will answer you, And your companions with you.
5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.
9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,
11 Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
12 There they cry, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
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