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◄ Job 35 ►

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1Then Elihu said:

2“Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?

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

3For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me? What’s the use of living a righteous life?’

3Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'

4“I will answer you and all your friends, too.

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

5Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.

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

6If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?

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

7If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him?

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

8No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.

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

9“People cry out when they are oppressed. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.

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

10Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?

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

11Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals and wiser than the birds of the sky?’

11who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'

12And when they cry out, God does not answer because of their pride.

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

13But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen, to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.

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

14You say you can’t see him, but he will bring justice if you will only wait.

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,

15You say he does not respond to sinners with anger and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.

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

16But you are talking nonsense, Job. You have spoken like a fool.”

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