Thematic Bible
Job 35:1 (show verse)
Then Elihu answered:
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Job 35:2 (show verse)
"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'
Job 35:3 (show verse)
But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?'
Job 35:4 (show verse)
I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
Job 35:5 (show verse)
Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
Job 35:6 (show verse)
If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
Job 35:7 (show verse)
If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 35:8 (show verse)
Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
Job 35:9 (show verse)
"People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.
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Job 35:10 (show verse)
But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
Job 35:11 (show verse)
who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
Job 35:12 (show verse)
Then they cry out -- but he does not answer -- because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Job 35:13 (show verse)
Surely it is an empty cry -- God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.
Job 35:14 (show verse)
How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!
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Job 35:15 (show verse)
And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!
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Job 35:16 (show verse)
So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words."
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