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Job 35

Elihu Sharply Rebukes Job

¹Then Elihu continued and said,

²“Do you think this is in accordance with justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

³“For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

⁴“I will answer you, And your friends with you.

⁵“Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.

⁶“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?

⁷“If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand?

⁸“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.

⁹¶“Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

¹¹Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

¹²“There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil people.

¹³“God certainly will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴“How much less when you say you do not look at Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

¹⁵“And now, because He has not avenged His anger, Nor has He acknowledged wrongdoing well,

¹⁶So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words without knowledge.”

Job 35 (NASB)

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