Job 35:1 ←
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
Job 35:2 ←
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Job 35:3 ←
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Job 35:4 ←
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job 35:5 ←
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Job 35:6 ←
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Job 35:7 ←
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job 35:8 ←
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job 35:9 ←
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:10 ←
But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Job 35:11 ←
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Job 35:12 ←
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 35:13 ←
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job 35:14 ←
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Job 35:15 ←
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Job 35:16 ←
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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