Job 35

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

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Job 35:3

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

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If I be cleansed from my sin or , by it more than by my sin

Job 35:4

I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

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answer thee Heb. return to thee words

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

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Job 35:6

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

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Job 35:7

If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

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Job 35:8

Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

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Job 35:9

Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

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Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

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Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

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Job 35:12

There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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Job 35:13

Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

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Job 35:14

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,

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Job 35:15

and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

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he that is , God

he that is , Job

Job 35:16

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

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