| Job 35:1 |
Then Elihu continued and said, |
| Job 35:2 |
Do you consider this to be just? / Do you say, My righteousness is more than God's, |
| Job 35:3 |
So that you say, What advantage is there to me, / What do I profit, more than if I had sinned? |
| Job 35:4 |
I will respond to you with words, / And to your companions with you. |
| Job 35:5 |
Look unto heaven and see; / And behold the skies: They are higher than you. |
| Job 35:6 |
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? / And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? |
| Job 35:7 |
If you are righteous, what can you give to Him, / Or what does He receive from your hand? |
| Job 35:8 |
Your wickedness [affects] a man like you, / And your righteousness, a son of man. |
| Job 35:9 |
Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; / They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
| Job 35:10 |
But no one says, Where is God my Maker, / Who gives songs in the night, |
| Job 35:11 |
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth / And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven? |
| Job 35:12 |
There they cry, but He does not answer, / Because of the pride of evil men. |
| Job 35:13 |
Surely God does not hear an empty [cry,] / And the Almighty does not regard it. |
| Job 35:14 |
How much less when you say that you do not behold Him, / That the cause is before Him and you are waiting on Him! |
| Job 35:15 |
But now, because He has not visited [in] His anger / Nor regarded such great arrogance, |
| Job 35:16 |
Job opens his mouth in vanity; / He multiplies words without knowledge. |