Job 35
Job 35:1 Then Elihu continued, and said:
Job 35:2 Do you think it is fair when you say, “I am righteous before God”?
Job 35:3 Because you ask, “What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”
Job 35:4 I will answer you and your friends with you.
Job 35:5 Look at the sky and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Job 35:6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?
Job 35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 35:8 Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness, a son of Adam.
Job 35:9 People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.
Job 35:10 But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,
Job 35:11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the land and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”
Job 35:12 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil people.
Job 35:13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, and the Almighty does not take note of it —
Job 35:14 how much less when you complain that you do not see him, that your case is before him, and you are waiting for him.
Job 35:15 But now, because God’s anger does not punish and he ignores transgression,
Job 35:16 Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words unknowingly.
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