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

⁵ Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou. ⁶ If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him? ⁷ If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive? ⁸ For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness. ⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night, ¹¹ Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.' ¹² There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers. ¹³ Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it. ¹⁴ Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him. ¹⁵ And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity. ¹⁶ And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.