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◄ Job 35 ►

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1Then Elihu said:

1And Elihu went on to say:

2"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I am in the right, not God.'

2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

3Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'

3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

4"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.

4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?

6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

7If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?

7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

9"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

10But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'

11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.

13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

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,

14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.

15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."

16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

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