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◄ Job 35 ►

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1Then Elihu said:

1Then Elihu continued, saying:

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

2Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before 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 You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"

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

4I will answer you and your friends with you.

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

5Look at 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, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it 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 a person like yourself, and your righteousness another human being.

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

9People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of 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 provides us with 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 gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?"

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.

13Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, 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 when you complain that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you are waiting for Him.

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

15But now, because God's anger does not punish and He does not pay attention to transgression,

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

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