Job 35
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1Then Elihu continued, saying: 1And Elihu answered and said:
2Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"? 2“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
3For you ask, "What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?" 3that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
4I will answer you and your friends with you. 4I will answer you and your friends with you.
5Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. 5Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
6If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him? 6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? 7If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness another human being. 8Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
9People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty. 9“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10But no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night, 10But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?" 11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. 12There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, and the Almighty does not take note of it-- 13Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
14how much less when you complain that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you are waiting for Him. 14How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
15But now, because God's anger does not punish and He does not pay attention to transgression, 15And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,
16Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge. 16Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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Job 34
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