Job 35
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1In response, Elihu said:1Then Elihu said:
2"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, 'I'm more righteous than God?'2"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I am in the right, not God.'
3After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: 'What will I profit from refraining from sin?'3Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
4I'm going to respond to that statement, and to your friends with you."4"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
5"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts? 7If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings. 8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
9"They cry out because they have many oppressors; they cry for help because the powerful are abusing them. 9"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10He never asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,10But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives 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 teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'
12"They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil.12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13Theirs is a useless plea— God won't listen; the Almighty won't pay any attention.13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to 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.14How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
15"So now, if he doesn't inflict punishment in his anger, then he doesn't keep track of your many transgressions.15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
16When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything."16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."
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