Job Chapter[BR] 35

1 Then Elihu continued, saying:

2 Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"?

3 For you ask, "What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"

4 I will answer you and your friends with you.

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

Job Chapter[BR] 35

6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

8 Your wickedness *affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness another human being.

Job Chapter[BR] 35

9 People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help from the arm of the mighty.

10 But no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides *us with songs in the night,

11 who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?"

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12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

13 Indeed, God does not listen to empty *cries , and the Almighty does not take note of it--

14 how much less when you complain that you do not see Him, *that your case is before Him and you are waiting for Him.

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15 But now, because God's anger does not punish and He does not pay attention to transgression,

16 Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.