Job 35

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¹ Then Elihu proceeded and said:	¹ And Elihu said:
² Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"	² "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
³ To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"	³ that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
⁴ I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.	⁴ I will answer you and your friends with you.
⁵ Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.	⁵ Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
⁶ If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you hurt him?	⁶ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And 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?	⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
⁸ Your wickedness can affect only a man like yourself; and your justice only a fellow human being.	⁸ Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.
⁹ In great oppression men cry out; they call for help because of the power of the mighty,	⁹ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
¹⁰ Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,	¹⁰ But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
¹¹ Taught us rather than the beasts of the earth, and made us wise rather than the birds of the heavens?"	¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
¹² Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.	¹² There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
¹³ But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.	¹³ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
¹⁴ Even though you say that you see him not, the case is before him; with trembling should you wait upon him.	¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
¹⁵ But now that you have done otherwise, God's anger punishes, nor does he show concern that a man will die.	¹⁵ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
¹⁶ Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.	¹⁶ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."