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Job 35
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Job 35 . 1
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Job 35 . 2
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’TOSKJob 35:2
Job 35 . 3
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’TOSKJob 35:3
Job 35 . 4
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.TOSKJob 35:4
Job 35 . 5
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.TOSKJob 35:5
Job 35 . 6
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?TOSKJob 35:6
Job 35 . 7
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?TOSKJob 35:7
Job 35 . 8
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.TOSKJob 35:8
Job 35 . 9
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.TOSKJob 35:9
Job 35 . 10
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,TOSKJob 35:10
Job 35 . 11
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’TOSKJob 35:11
Job 35 . 12
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.TOSKJob 35:12
Job 35 . 13
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.TOSKJob 35:13
Job 35 . 14
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,TOSKJob 35:14
Job 35 . 15
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!TOSKJob 35:15
Job 35 . 16
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”TOSKJob 35:16