Job Chapter 35 Back Next{35:1} Moreover
Elihu answered,
{35:2} "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'
{35:3} That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
{35:4} I will answer you, and your companions with you.
{35:5} Look to the
heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
{35:6} If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
{35:7} If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
{35:8} Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
{35:9} "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
{35:10} But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
{35:11} who teaches us more than the animals of the
earth, and makes us wiser than the
birds of the sky?'
{35:12} There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
{35:13} Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
{35:14} How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
{35:15} But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
{35:16} Therefore
Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
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