CPDV - Job - 35

35:1  After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:

35:2  Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”

35:3  For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”

35:4  And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.

35:5  Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.

35:6  If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?

35:7  Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?

35:8  Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.

35:9  Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.

35:10  Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,

35:11  who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”

35:12  There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.

35:13  Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case.

35:14  And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him.

35:15  For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly.

35:16  Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.