Job 35:6-16

6 If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or if thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

7 If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?

8 Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.

9 By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.

10 But no one shall say, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

12 There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.

14 For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in him.

15 But now, because he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;

16 therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.

Job 35:6-16 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.