Job 35

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¹And Elius resumed and said,

¹Moreover Elihu answered,

²What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord?

²“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

³I will answer you, and your three friends.

³that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

⁴Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above you.

⁴I will answer you, and your companions with you.

⁵If you have sinned, what will you do?

⁵Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

⁶and if too you have transgressed much, what can you perform?

⁶If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

⁷And suppose you are righteous, what will you give him? or what shall he receive of your hand?

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

⁸Your ungodliness [may affect] a man who is like to you; or your righteousness a son of man.

⁸Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

⁹They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

⁹“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

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

¹¹who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

¹¹who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

¹²There they shall cry, and none shall listen, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

¹²There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

¹³For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

¹³Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

¹⁴How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

¹⁵For he is not [now] regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

¹⁵But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,

¹⁶Yet Job vainly opens his mouth , in ignorance he multiplies words .

¹⁶therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”