Job 35

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Job 35

Elihu Sharply Reproves Job

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“Do you think this is according to ^(A)justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

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“For you say, ‘^(B)What advantage will it be to ^(a)You?
^(C)What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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“I will answer you,
And your friends with you.

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“^(D)Look at the heavens and see;
And behold ^(E)the clouds—they are higher than you.

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“If you have sinned, ^(F)what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

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“If you are righteous, ^(G)what do you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

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“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,
And your righteousness is for a son of man.

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“Because of the ^(H)multitude of oppressions they cry out;
They cry for help because of the arm ^(I)of the mighty.

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“But ^(J)no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
Who ^(K)gives songs in the night,

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Who ^(L)teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

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“There ^(M)they cry out, but He does not answer
Because of the pride of evil men.

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“Surely ^(N)God will not listen to ^(b)an empty cry,
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

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“How much less when ^(O)you say you do not behold Him,
The ^(P)case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

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“And now, because He has not visited in His anger,
Nor has He acknowledged ^(c)transgression well,

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So Job opens his mouth ^(d)emptily;
He multiplies words ^(Q)without knowledge.”

Footnotes:

a. Job 35:3: ['Or ', you]

b. Job 35:13: ['Or ', falsehood]

c. Job 35:15: ['Or ', arrogance]

d. Job 35:16: ['Lit ', vainly]

Cross references:

A. Job 35:2: Job 27:2

B. Job 35:3: Job 34:9

C. Job 35:3: Job 9:30; Job 9:31

D. Job 35:5: Genesis 15:5; Psalm 8:3

E. Job 35:5: Job 22:12

F. Job 35:6: Job 7:20; Proverbs 8:36; Jeremiah 7:19

G. Job 35:7: Job 22:2; Job 22:3; Proverbs 9:12; Luke 17:10; Romans 11:35

H. Job 35:9: Exodus 2:23

I. Job 35:9: Job 12:19

J. Job 35:10: Job 21:14; Job 27:10; Job 36:13; Isaiah 51:13

K. Job 35:10: Job 8:21; Psalm 42:8; Psalm 77:6; Psalm 149:5; Acts 16:25

L. Job 35:11: Job 36:22; Psalm 94:12; Jeremiah 32:33

M. Job 35:12: Proverbs 1:28

N. Job 35:13: Job 27:9; Proverbs 15:29; Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11; Micah 3:4

O. Job 35:14: Job 9:11; Job 23:8; Job 23:9

P. Job 35:14: Job 31:35

Q. Job 35:16: Job 34:35; Job 38:2