Job 35 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 After this, Eliu again spoke in this way: And Elihu answered and said: Then Elihu said:
2 Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?” “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
3 For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?” that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
4 And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you. I will answer you and your friends with you. “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
5 Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6 If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him? If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7 Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand? If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man. Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
9 Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants. “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10 Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night, But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?” who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’ who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
12 There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked. There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13 Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case. Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
14 And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him. How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! How 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,
15 For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly. And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
16 Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge. Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.” So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
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