Job 35
1 Elihu replied:
2 “Do you think this is right? You said, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s.’
3 For you say, ‘What good is that to you? What do I gain more than if I sinned?’
4 I will answer you with words, and your friends with you.
5 Look at the sky and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
6 If you sin, what do you do against him? If your transgressions are many, what do you do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? What does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects a man like you, and your righteousness a human being.
9 Because oppression multiplies, they cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the powerful.
10 But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of the wicked.
13 Surely God does not hear empty words; the Almighty does not regard them.
14 How much more when you say, ‘You do not see us.’ The case is before him, and you wait for him.
15 And now, has his anger not punished, and has he not paid much attention to folly?
16 And Job opens his mouth in vain; without knowledge, he multiplies words.”
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