Job 35
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1In response, Elihu said:1Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, 'I'm more righteous than God?'2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: 'What will I profit from refraining from sin?'3For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4I'm going to respond to that statement, and to your friends with you."4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts? 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings. 8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9"They cry out because they have many oppressors; they cry for help because the powerful are abusing them. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10He never asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11who teaches us more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.12There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13Theirs is a useless plea— God won't listen; the Almighty won't pay any attention.13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14Even though you complain that you can't perceive him, your case is already pending for judgment in his presence so keep on placing your hope in him.14Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15"So now, if he doesn't inflict punishment in his anger, then he doesn't keep track of your many transgressions.15But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything."16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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Job 34
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