Job 35:5-16 - Human Behavior Cannot Change God

⁵ Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you. ⁶ If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man. ⁹ From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude. ¹⁰ But none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night; ¹¹ who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens? ¹² There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers. ¹³ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look on it. ¹⁴ How much less when you say you do not see Him! Judgment is before Him; you are waiting for Him. ¹⁵ And now, because His anger has not visited, and He does not recognize stupidity, ¹⁶ even Job opens his mouth in vanity; he multiplies words without knowledge.