Job 35:1 (BSB)
And Elihu went on to say:

Job 35:2 (BSB)
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

Job 35:3 (BSB)
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

Job 35:4 (BSB)
I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

Job 35:5 (BSB)
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Job 35:6 (BSB)
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

Job 35:7 (BSB)
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

Job 35:8 (BSB)
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

Job 35:9 (BSB)
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

Job 35:10 (BSB)
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

Job 35:11 (BSB)
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Job 35:12 (BSB)
There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Job 35:13 (BSB)
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

Job 35:14 (BSB)
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

Job 35:15 (BSB)
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

Job 35:16 (BSB)
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
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