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Job 35

¹Then Elihu said:

²“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

³Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, [58] and what do I gain by not sinning?’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹¹who teaches us more than he teaches [59] the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than [60] the birds in the sky?’

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

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

¹⁵and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness. [61]

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