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◄ Job 35 ►

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Holman Christian Standard Bible

1Then Elihu said:

1Then Elihu continued, saying:

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

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

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

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

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

4I will answer you and your friends with you.

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

5Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds 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 it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it 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 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 affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness another human being.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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