Job 35 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 In response, Elihu said: And Elihu answered and said: Then Elihu said:
2 |Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, 'I'm more righteous 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 After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: 'What will I profit from refraining from 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 I'm going to respond to that statement, and to your friends 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 |Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they? 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, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to 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 If you are righteous, what will you add to him? What can God receive from your efforts? 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 wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings. 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 |They cry out because they have many oppressors; they cry for help because the powerful are abusing them. “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 He never asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives me 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 more than the earth's wild animals, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?' 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 |They cry out there, but he doesn't answer because of the arrogance of those who practice evil. 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 Theirs is a useless plea— God won't listen; the Almighty won't pay any attention. 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 Even though you complain that you can't perceive him, your case is already pending for judgment in his presence so keep on placing your hope in 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 |So now, if he doesn't inflict punishment in his anger, then he doesn't keep track of your many transgressions. 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 When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything.| 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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