Job 35

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¹ And Elihu said:	¹ Elihu spake moreover, and said,
² "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'	² Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
³ that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'	³ For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
⁴ I will answer you and your friends with you.	⁴ I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
⁵ Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.	⁵ Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
⁶ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?	⁶ If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?	⁷ If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
⁸ Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.	⁸ Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
⁹ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.	⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
¹⁰ But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,	¹⁰ But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'	¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
¹² There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.	¹² There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
¹³ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.	¹³ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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!	¹⁴ Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
¹⁵ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,	¹⁵ But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
¹⁶ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."	¹⁶ Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.